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.
Well, it was written there in your blood
That we were all forged out of them all
As you sat quietly in your antique chair, and stared
I gave it all I could, and I, I gave it hell
Well, oh, I guess I don't care
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
If you need me let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Oh, just let me know
Well, you were catalogue coming script of boyish tales
Of all his conquests of the damsels in distress, whoa oh
As he seeks inside your heart out and multiply
And the pain beneath your eyes gets,
gets captured and glossed.
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
If you need me let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
So, step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Oh, just let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Oh, just let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh
Step away from my, my, my, my
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh
Step away from my, my, my, my
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh just let me know
That we were all forged out of them all
As you sat quietly in your antique chair, and stared
I gave it all I could, and I, I gave it hell
Well, oh, I guess I don't care
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
If you need me let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Oh, just let me know
Well, you were catalogue coming script of boyish tales
Of all his conquests of the damsels in distress, whoa oh
As he seeks inside your heart out and multiply
And the pain beneath your eyes gets,
gets captured and glossed.
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
If you need me let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
So, step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Oh, just let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Oh, just let me know
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh
Step away from my lips
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh
Step away from my, my, my, my
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh
Step away from my, my, my, my
Step away from my throat
Whoa, oh just let me know
Lyrics submitted by andreaaaa
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This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
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good job andrea.
for the fourth stanza: well you were catalogueing coming script of boyish tales of all his conquests of the damsels in distress, whoa oh as he seeks inside, your heart out and multiply
idk thats what i hear
In the first stanza I hear this: Well, it was written there in your blood That we were all forged out of them all As you sat quietly in your antique chair, and stared I gave it all I could, and I, I gave it hell Oh, I guess I don't care
Other than that---this song is awesome!
This song is absolutely great! It has so much umph! I love how it leads into calm touching! They rock!
My favorite Evaline song EVER.POYO!!! Ha, and to think I found such an awsome band because my old girlfriend was named Evaline.POYO!!!
This song makes me think of vampires. Maybe love. To the point where... the vampire (like a girlfriend/boyfriend or even maybe like a parent) used to act like they needed them alot but now they act like they don't care about them no matter how much of anything they have sacrificed for them. And its just someone going la de da --like whatever i'm done with it.
---my interpretation. its just what i invision in my head when it plays.
This song makes me think of vampires. Maybe love. To the point where... the vampire (like a girlfriend/boyfriend or even maybe like a parent) used to act like they needed them alot but now they act like they don't care about them no matter how much of anything they have sacrificed for them. And its just someone going la de da --like whatever i'm done with it.
---my interpretation. its just what i invision in my head when it plays.
I love this song. But i dont get it, as far as what its about. I'm metaphorically challenged, i guess.
"Well, it was written there in your blood That we were all forged out of them all"
"Well, you were catalogue coming script of boyish tales"
all i'm getting is stuff about writing. So maybe...its about this girl having this fantasy, this picture of the perfect guy, and maybe she was disappointed once she finds out this guy is nothing like who she imagined or fantasized, or whatever. and she's all, get away from me your a fake.
or something.
i dont know. it was a shot?
i love this soooonggg.
*correction
"if you're leaving, let me know"
to me this song means that he chose this girl because of many things that she is actually not. she is not the "damsel in distress" he orginally saved and now he dosent care anymore. it dosent hurt him but it actually hurts her because she wants him