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.
I haven’t had the best of
luck with your intentions
I always seem one step behind
Didn’t see that I was
losing you to a new life
Gotta be deaf, dumb and blind
Another day and you’ll
be nothing but a memory
I wish I had the time to say
All those things that I
have always meant to tell you
But fate takes my breath away
You want me back
You have no friends
You’ve seen the best of me
And now you’re missing me
It was the worst mistake of
your life Another day goes by
and you’re trying to forget me
I wish that I felt the same way
You want to come home to
your life full of familiar faces
But fate pushes you away
luck with your intentions
I always seem one step behind
Didn’t see that I was
losing you to a new life
Gotta be deaf, dumb and blind
Another day and you’ll
be nothing but a memory
I wish I had the time to say
All those things that I
have always meant to tell you
But fate takes my breath away
You want me back
You have no friends
You’ve seen the best of me
And now you’re missing me
It was the worst mistake of
your life Another day goes by
and you’re trying to forget me
I wish that I felt the same way
You want to come home to
your life full of familiar faces
But fate pushes you away
Lyrics submitted by rage.love
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