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.
The first step's so called education
next chapter is assimilation
We keep you pacified so you will follow
It's a stand in line conglomerate
in a bigot workshop mortuary
We keep you satisfied so you will swallow
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spinds a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
Sooth your sense till you're mine
Next we bring intimidation,
social status segregation
where you all justify & play consumer
fear works further toward division,
indiscriminate spastic decisions
we keep you paranoid, so you can't struggle
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spins a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
fill your pockets, now you're mine
And if you find a vein, I'll be the medicine
I'll be the medicine for you
Oh my love, only you, my love
We weave a tale of our stark heroics,
swaying the public from our bully pulpits
Create illusions for imperial schemes
poor against the poor for democracy
While we rape that word with a swift incision
snatch up the poverty to fill up the prisons
boost economy with perpetual war
and everything you buy only feeds us more!
(so just keep buying...)
next chapter is assimilation
We keep you pacified so you will follow
It's a stand in line conglomerate
in a bigot workshop mortuary
We keep you satisfied so you will swallow
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spinds a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
Sooth your sense till you're mine
Next we bring intimidation,
social status segregation
where you all justify & play consumer
fear works further toward division,
indiscriminate spastic decisions
we keep you paranoid, so you can't struggle
It's just beginner's luck if you get out, get out, get out
It's just beginner's luck if you get out
This finely fashioned fairy tale
spins a web that's indestructible
and rife with lies
fill your pockets, now you're mine
And if you find a vein, I'll be the medicine
I'll be the medicine for you
Oh my love, only you, my love
We weave a tale of our stark heroics,
swaying the public from our bully pulpits
Create illusions for imperial schemes
poor against the poor for democracy
While we rape that word with a swift incision
snatch up the poverty to fill up the prisons
boost economy with perpetual war
and everything you buy only feeds us more!
(so just keep buying...)
Lyrics submitted by TrotsKeenSense
Tainted Wheat Lyrics as written by Matthew Dean Embree Christopher Tyler Tsagakis
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!