So this has been.my favorite song of OTEP's since it came out in 2004, and I always thought it was a song about a child's narrative of suffering in an abusive Christian home. But now that I am revisiting the lyrics, I am seeing something totally new.
This song could be gospel of John but from the perspective of Jesus.
Jesus was NOT having a good time up to and during the crucifixion. Everyone in the known world at the time looked to him with fear, admiration or disgust and he was constantly being asked questions. He spoke in "verses, prophesies and curses". He had made an enemy of the state, and believed the world was increasingly wicked and fallen from grace, or that he was in the "mouth of madness".
The spine of atlas is the structure that allows the titan to hold the world up. Jesus challenged the state and in doing so became a celebrated resistance figure. It also made him public enemy #1.
All of this happened simply because he was doing his thing, not because of any agenda he had or strategy.
And then he gets scourged (storm of thorns)
There are some plot holes here but I think it's an interesting interpretation.
What I need
Is good advice
Cooked on plates of ground meat
Rubber hands and silly friends
Pasted on my wall.
Someone sold
A sweet sea soup
That I could swim in proudly
We might swim like laughing ducks
In your pink light glow
There we go changing kin
There we go again
My hands can make your
Warm again
If not absorbed in blankets
Are you in need of teen angst
And nibble on your neck?
And if I had volcano boots
For swimming in volcanoes
Do you know the origins of laughing ducks?
Oh what's a matter with those birds
There we go changing kin
There we go again
What you need's a
Happy farm
With happy goats and sheep
What I need's a
Happy arm
To swing ya 'round like father
Is good advice
Cooked on plates of ground meat
Rubber hands and silly friends
Pasted on my wall.
Someone sold
A sweet sea soup
That I could swim in proudly
We might swim like laughing ducks
In your pink light glow
There we go changing kin
There we go again
My hands can make your
Warm again
If not absorbed in blankets
Are you in need of teen angst
And nibble on your neck?
And if I had volcano boots
For swimming in volcanoes
Do you know the origins of laughing ducks?
Oh what's a matter with those birds
There we go changing kin
There we go again
What you need's a
Happy farm
With happy goats and sheep
What I need's a
Happy arm
To swing ya 'round like father
Lyrics submitted by couldBanyone
Daffy Duck Lyrics as written by David Michael Portner Brian Ross Weitz
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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this song is about envy, or jealousy...