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.
you were all were dressed in green!
clouds bounced against the edges of the sky.
you had the prettiest hair I'd ever seen.
we saw the world passing by.
there was an ocean's droning,
though we were nowhere near the shore.
we heard each other giggling and moaning,
then we couldn't hear each other any more. yeah.
when my head was resting on your breast bone,
I could hear your beating heart.
24 hours later, you had left me completely alone.
I heard the whole world come apart.
and you were all dressed in green!
rising in the sky was an unfamiliar star.
you know, you know what I mean.
yeah I remember who you are.
clouds bounced against the edges of the sky.
you had the prettiest hair I'd ever seen.
we saw the world passing by.
there was an ocean's droning,
though we were nowhere near the shore.
we heard each other giggling and moaning,
then we couldn't hear each other any more. yeah.
when my head was resting on your breast bone,
I could hear your beating heart.
24 hours later, you had left me completely alone.
I heard the whole world come apart.
and you were all dressed in green!
rising in the sky was an unfamiliar star.
you know, you know what I mean.
yeah I remember who you are.
Lyrics submitted by shewouldnt
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The one on The Hound Chronicles has a long ass silence/voiceover at the beginning and the one on Nothing for Juice has a screeching noise that leaves me deaf. As much as I love him, I can see why some people are really not that into john's music
who am i kidding he's a genius.