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.
Amaze disgrace
How sweet the sound
Of footfalls in
The underground
And rise my children
Come and play
The perfect earth
She's been blown away
And don't you fear it
When you hear it
Stirring down below
Don't you get that's
How it lets itself into your soul?
These walls are too thin to
Hide our screams
Amaze disgrace
Oh how sweet it is
Your life's blood bleeds
Along your wrist
And rise my children
Come and see
The perfect earth
Catastrophe
And don't you fear it when you hear it
Stirring down below
Don't you get that's how it lets
Itself into your soul?
These walls are too thin to hide our screams
It was a night like tonight
So many years ago
I was drawn towards the light
Held on too tight, could not let go
And rise my children come and play
The perfect earth, she's been blown away
And don't you fear it when you hear it
Stirring down below
(Stirring down below)
Don't you get that's how it lets
Itself into your soul?
(Self into your soul)
And don't you fear it when you hear it
Stirring down below
(Stirring down below)
Don't you get that's how it lets
Itself into your soul?
These walls are too thin to
Hide our screams
Amaze (disgrace)
(Amaze disgrace)
Amaze...
How sweet the sound
Of footfalls in
The underground
And rise my children
Come and play
The perfect earth
She's been blown away
And don't you fear it
When you hear it
Stirring down below
Don't you get that's
How it lets itself into your soul?
These walls are too thin to
Hide our screams
Amaze disgrace
Oh how sweet it is
Your life's blood bleeds
Along your wrist
And rise my children
Come and see
The perfect earth
Catastrophe
And don't you fear it when you hear it
Stirring down below
Don't you get that's how it lets
Itself into your soul?
These walls are too thin to hide our screams
It was a night like tonight
So many years ago
I was drawn towards the light
Held on too tight, could not let go
And rise my children come and play
The perfect earth, she's been blown away
And don't you fear it when you hear it
Stirring down below
(Stirring down below)
Don't you get that's how it lets
Itself into your soul?
(Self into your soul)
And don't you fear it when you hear it
Stirring down below
(Stirring down below)
Don't you get that's how it lets
Itself into your soul?
These walls are too thin to
Hide our screams
Amaze (disgrace)
(Amaze disgrace)
Amaze...
Lyrics submitted by Sess
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C'mon guys.. noone commenting on this amazing song? I think it's great! The whole album rocks and reminds me of Coheed somehow. I love these long instrumental parts in this song.
I think this song is about letting yourself fall into something.. big, something you might not understand. Letting your fears go off and be ready for it.