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.
I saw you sitting at the center of a circle
Everybody
Everybody wanted something from you
I saw you sitting there
I saw you swaying to the rhythm of the music
Caught you playing
Caught you praying to the voice inside you
I saw you swaying there
I don't care what you want to be
I go back so far, I'm in front of me
It doesn't matter what they say
They're giving the game away, hey, hey
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
I heard you listening to a secret conversation
You were crying
You were trying not to let them hear you
I heard you listening in
Never mind what they want to do
You got a right to your point of view
It doesn't matter what they say
They're giving the game away, hey, hey
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
(I can see the world tonight)
I saw you hiding from a flock of paparazzi
You were hoping
You were hoping that the ground would swallow you
I saw you hiding there
I don't care what you want to be
I go back so far, I'm in front of me
It doesn't matter what they say
They're giving the game away, hey, hey
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
I can see the world tonight
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
I can see the world tonight
Everybody
Everybody wanted something from you
I saw you sitting there
I saw you swaying to the rhythm of the music
Caught you playing
Caught you praying to the voice inside you
I saw you swaying there
I don't care what you want to be
I go back so far, I'm in front of me
It doesn't matter what they say
They're giving the game away, hey, hey
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
I heard you listening to a secret conversation
You were crying
You were trying not to let them hear you
I heard you listening in
Never mind what they want to do
You got a right to your point of view
It doesn't matter what they say
They're giving the game away, hey, hey
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
(I can see the world tonight)
I saw you hiding from a flock of paparazzi
You were hoping
You were hoping that the ground would swallow you
I saw you hiding there
I don't care what you want to be
I go back so far, I'm in front of me
It doesn't matter what they say
They're giving the game away, hey, hey
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
Look into the future
I can see the world tonight
See it in a different light
I can see the world tonight
I can see the world tonight
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
The World Tonight Lyrics as written by Paul Mccartney
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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