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.
It don't matter, when you turn
Gonna survive, live and learn.
I've been thinking about you baby
By the light of dawn, and in my blues
Day and night, I been missing you
I've been thinking about you baby,
Almost makes me crazy,
Come and live with me
Either way, win or lose,
When you're born into trouble you live the blues
I've been thinking about you baby
See it almost makes me crazy child
Nothing's right if you ain't here
I'd give all that I have just to, keep you near
I wrote you a letter and tried to make it clear
That you just don't believe that, I'm sincere.
I've been thinking about you baby
Plans and schemes, hopes and fears
Dreams I've denied for all these years
I've been thinking about you babe, living with me, well
I've been thinking about you baby, makes me wanna, child
Nothing's right, if you ain't here
I give all that I have just to keep you near
I wrote you a letter darlin', trying to make it clear
How much you just don't believe that I'm sincere.
Thinking about you baby, I want you near me
Gonna survive, live and learn.
I've been thinking about you baby
By the light of dawn, and in my blues
Day and night, I been missing you
I've been thinking about you baby,
Almost makes me crazy,
Come and live with me
Either way, win or lose,
When you're born into trouble you live the blues
I've been thinking about you baby
See it almost makes me crazy child
Nothing's right if you ain't here
I'd give all that I have just to, keep you near
I wrote you a letter and tried to make it clear
That you just don't believe that, I'm sincere.
I've been thinking about you baby
Plans and schemes, hopes and fears
Dreams I've denied for all these years
I've been thinking about you babe, living with me, well
I've been thinking about you baby, makes me wanna, child
Nothing's right, if you ain't here
I give all that I have just to keep you near
I wrote you a letter darlin', trying to make it clear
How much you just don't believe that I'm sincere.
Thinking about you baby, I want you near me
Lyrics submitted by darkhorse_86, edited by qlamp
Live With Me Lyrics as written by Robert Del Naja Neil Davidge
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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The song sounds like the narrator is concerned about someone they care about. Someone who is putting their self in harms way. The Narrator believes that if they are together, he can protect them.