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 know I wasn't made to play on a team
You weighed your suitcase down but it still wouldn't sink
I know that crime doesn't pay
But I don't know any other way
the way that she smiles me down
She claims to be clowning
I finally long for someone
Teaspoon
two can just bleed into one
But only one does the bleeding
She calls me the alphabet gun
Teaspoon
I know I wasn't made to play on a team
You weighed your suitcase down but it still wouldn't sink
I know that crime doesn't pay
But I don't know any other way
She orders the pilot to land
She just wants to hold the man
Well I am her pilot today
Teaspoon
You weighed your suitcase down but it still wouldn't sink
I know that crime doesn't pay
But I don't know any other way
the way that she smiles me down
She claims to be clowning
I finally long for someone
Teaspoon
two can just bleed into one
But only one does the bleeding
She calls me the alphabet gun
Teaspoon
I know I wasn't made to play on a team
You weighed your suitcase down but it still wouldn't sink
I know that crime doesn't pay
But I don't know any other way
She orders the pilot to land
She just wants to hold the man
Well I am her pilot today
Teaspoon
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Why? Cause of "crime" and "teaspoon." That's all you have to go on???? I think it's a stooopid song 'cause nobody really knows what it's about. He could have sang Smelly Cat and it would have been just as good.