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.
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
Forty detectives this week
Forty detectives strong
Takin' a stroll down love street
Strollin', is that so wrong?
Can I get my co-dependant?
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu
Oh no
Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu
Bump, bump
It must have been a hundred miles
Or any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out
When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky, I'm
I'm wide awake now!
Workin' the beat as we speak
Workin' the belle du monde
Believe in the havoc we wreak
Believin', is that so wrong?
Can I get my co-dependant?
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu
Bump, bump
C'mon
It must have been a hundred miles
Any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out
When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky, I'm
I'm wide awake now
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu
Oh no
Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu
Bump, bump
Listenin' to what I said
And try to get it through your head
A little bit of circumstance and
A chance to make out
Livin' in a citadel
It's hard enough to be yourself
Waiting for the bell to toll and
I'm wide awake now
It must have been a hundred miles
Or any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out
When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky I'm
I'm wide awake now
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
Forty detectives this week
Forty detectives strong
Takin' a stroll down love street
Strollin', is that so wrong?
Can I get my co-dependant?
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu
Oh no
Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu
Bump, bump
It must have been a hundred miles
Or any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out
When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky, I'm
I'm wide awake now!
Workin' the beat as we speak
Workin' the belle du monde
Believe in the havoc we wreak
Believin', is that so wrong?
Can I get my co-dependant?
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu
Bump, bump
C'mon
It must have been a hundred miles
Any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out
When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky, I'm
I'm wide awake now
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
(Gon' getchya, gon' shake ya)
Hump de bump doop bodu
Bump de hump doop bop
Hump de bump doop bodu
Oh no
Bump de hump doop bodu
Hump de bump doop bop
Bump de hump doop bodu
Bump, bump
Listenin' to what I said
And try to get it through your head
A little bit of circumstance and
A chance to make out
Livin' in a citadel
It's hard enough to be yourself
Waiting for the bell to toll and
I'm wide awake now
It must have been a hundred miles
Or any of a hundred styles
It's not about the smile you wear but
The way we make out
When I was an all-aloner
Nothing but a two-beach comber
Anybody seen the sky I'm
I'm wide awake now
Lyrics submitted by bobjebus16, edited by Mellow_Harsher, ZeroThaHero
Hump de Bump Lyrics as written by John Anthony Frusciante Michael Balzary
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