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.
Bloodshot eyes - metal skin
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Beholding the might
In its dawn of grace
In its beauty and light
In its pride and glory
Rushing torrent - time and space
Elder lords - crack the soil
Gone or dead - you've never been
Kingdom come - hear the roar
Climbing down to rule the earth
Bloodshot eyes - metal skin
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Upon high places
With their heads up high
With their lives at stake
With their blades at hand
Triumph come - beyond the gate
Giants rise - from the pits
Worlds collide - chaos reign
Dawn of gold - age of gods
Climbing down to rule the earth
Bloodshot eyes - metal skin
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Lighting strikes - wake up now
Heed the forth - hate the weak
Summon all - make the signs
Legions march - earth the void
Climbing down to rule the earth
Bloodshot eyes - metal skin
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Beholding the might
In its dawn of grace
In its beauty and light
In its pride and glory
Rushing torrent - time and space
Elder lords - crack the soil
Gone or dead - you've never been
Kingdom come - hear the roar
Climbing down to rule the earth
Bloodshot eyes - metal skin
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Upon high places
With their heads up high
With their lives at stake
With their blades at hand
Triumph come - beyond the gate
Giants rise - from the pits
Worlds collide - chaos reign
Dawn of gold - age of gods
Climbing down to rule the earth
Bloodshot eyes - metal skin
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Lighting strikes - wake up now
Heed the forth - hate the weak
Summon all - make the signs
Legions march - earth the void
Climbing down to rule the earth
Bloodshot eyes - metal skin
Serpents tounge - dagger claws
Dragon wings - crooked horns
K.I.N.G
Lyrics submitted by Pryder
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@odinographer Very good review, I learned a lot from it! Thanks for it!
I have a couple of remarks & questions, tho which are not to be taken as offense or criticism.
I do not believe that the Catholic interpretation of Christianity is the same religion as what Jesus himself established while he was on the earth. In that sense, I am not anti-Christian, but I am definitely a lot against all the practices, beliefs and superstitions that the Catholic church introduced with its appearance on the world's historic scene.
Many of those practices were indeed nothing more than mere superstitions - such as the one you mentioned above, of not taking bath & living in filth, to inherit a greater reward in heaven... That's complete nonsense, of course, and I do not believe that superstition can be ascribed as that came from the Lord Jesus Christ as a teaching from Himself. Rather, it came from the Catholics. And there's a HUGE difference between the two concepts.
The Catholic church is NOT Jesus Christ & his teachings. Many reformators, such as Martin Luther and John Rogers, have seen through those falsehoods of the Catholic church and have claimed the same long before me.
We should differentiate the teachings of Jesus from those of the Catholic church. To me, the Catholic church is the real church of Satan in the world, and not of Jesus.
Another thing: if Satanists really are those 'descendants' (conditionally spoken) of the unfairly treated by the Catholics pagans, those, who have seen through the faults of the Catholic church and have therefore known the truth, then why do they so readily accept an idea as close to Christendom as it is the believing in the devil? An idea of a being, which is so far from the pagan reality of the Norse heritage, where there has never been such a being as Satan - who is the ultimate representation of all evil in one collective image.
Even Loki himself is not to be considered as any close to the Christian idea of the antagonist. So, how come a person, who has seen the truth about the Catholic church. can so readily embrace a typical for the Judeo-Christianity dualistic ideology of God of goodness and his evil antagonist, and call himself Satanist?
He should rather strip himself off from anything that has to do with Christianity, because even by calling yourself a Satanist, you only try to manifest a rebellion against Christianity, while maintaining its very own dualistic/non-paganistic belief system... thereby sending the knowledge of our pagan ancestors' faith even further away in oblivion...
Can u explain to me this, please, because to me Satanism is a big contradiction in itself. It is as if to go against Christianity, but at the same time using its own imagery for that purpose. Can u explain this big contradiction to me, please, and why call yourself a Satanist if you are against Christianity as a whole, which includes the belief in God and a devil.
If you can answer me this question, I will be grateful :)