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.
Negah con, negah con, be aebr-ha-ye tu-ye aseman
(Look at the clouds in the sky)
Saerneveshtaemo didaem
(I have seen my destiny)
Aesb-aem bayaed bebaze, ha ha ha
(My horse must lose, ha ha ha)
Musik-e delvapaesi
(Musical anxiety)
Maen be seda jaevab midaem mostaeghim. Seda naefaesaeme.
(I answer to sound directly. Sound is my breath.)
Our house is a house that moves just like the Ocean
Just like the Ocean
My angel, Empathy
Drawing me beneath her wings, want slender fingers
Of our home's to feather leaf
Mother is a mouth upon
My neck, a pink bird
Swoon in the belly
And I don't wanna sing, I don't wanna say no
I don't wanna sing, I don't wanna say no
Luck today, my brother, gorgeous he will lay in gems
I don't wanna say no
Luck today, my brother, gorgeous he will lay in gems
These words are simply small black statuaries
Between you and me, I don't wanna sing
I don't wanna say no
I don't wanna sing, I don't wanna say no
Lock today in a bottle, gorgeous evil angel
I don't wanna say no
Lock today in a bottle, gorgeous evil angel
Ok
[Farsi?]
(Look at the clouds in the sky)
Saerneveshtaemo didaem
(I have seen my destiny)
Aesb-aem bayaed bebaze, ha ha ha
(My horse must lose, ha ha ha)
Musik-e delvapaesi
(Musical anxiety)
Maen be seda jaevab midaem mostaeghim. Seda naefaesaeme.
(I answer to sound directly. Sound is my breath.)
Our house is a house that moves just like the Ocean
Just like the Ocean
My angel, Empathy
Drawing me beneath her wings, want slender fingers
Of our home's to feather leaf
Mother is a mouth upon
My neck, a pink bird
Swoon in the belly
And I don't wanna sing, I don't wanna say no
I don't wanna sing, I don't wanna say no
Luck today, my brother, gorgeous he will lay in gems
I don't wanna say no
Luck today, my brother, gorgeous he will lay in gems
These words are simply small black statuaries
Between you and me, I don't wanna sing
I don't wanna say no
I don't wanna sing, I don't wanna say no
Lock today in a bottle, gorgeous evil angel
I don't wanna say no
Lock today in a bottle, gorgeous evil angel
Ok
[Farsi?]
Lyrics submitted by saocore, edited by goloktopus
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as odd as it may seem, my favorite part of this song is the beginning with the girl yelling out german words.
okay, the beginning is definitely sang in farsi, the persian language. she is saying something like <br /> "Look, Look. Look in the sky!<br /> I see me destiney!<br /> A Horse in the Sky! hahahaha"<br />
i changed it thanks