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.
Tourists rob you of your home
In sunken boats
And you can hide quiet as a mouse
But they'll find you out
And she aked me what have you felt
So down and out
You can stay with me at my house
When I woke my back was broke from lyin on the floor
Sunlight poured through all the cracks in my front door
Wake up you've got a lot of things to do
Wake up the sun is rising without you
Toursits robbed me of my child
They smoked him out
He was draft dodgin some war
Till they found him out
And he came wanderin in the night
to his mom and me
And he said times, they gotta change,
but so do we
When I woke I was alive in sombody's room
I felt life and love and hope infested my bones
Wake up you've got a lot of things to do
Wake up the sun is rising without you
When I woke my body was dyin all over the floor
I felt apathy and hate infested my bones
Wake up you've got a lot of things to do
Wake up the sun is rising without you
In sunken boats
And you can hide quiet as a mouse
But they'll find you out
And she aked me what have you felt
So down and out
You can stay with me at my house
When I woke my back was broke from lyin on the floor
Sunlight poured through all the cracks in my front door
Wake up you've got a lot of things to do
Wake up the sun is rising without you
Toursits robbed me of my child
They smoked him out
He was draft dodgin some war
Till they found him out
And he came wanderin in the night
to his mom and me
And he said times, they gotta change,
but so do we
When I woke I was alive in sombody's room
I felt life and love and hope infested my bones
Wake up you've got a lot of things to do
Wake up the sun is rising without you
When I woke my body was dyin all over the floor
I felt apathy and hate infested my bones
Wake up you've got a lot of things to do
Wake up the sun is rising without you
Lyrics submitted by geekthegirl
Quiet as a Mouse Lyrics as written by Richard Charles Edwards
Lyrics © TERRORBIRD PUBLISHING LLC
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I like this song...does anyone have any insight as to what it may mean? I'm kind of curious, and I don't really get it. Margot & Such remind me of Snow Patrol.