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 want to live and die in a small apartment
On the fifteenth floor of a New York skyrise
But when I talk to you at the office party
You said you couldn't move 'cause your boss needs you around
I want to spend the night in a cheap motel room
We can live in sin if you really want to
'Cause I've been thinking hard about doing something
About the way I felt the past two years or so
If you wanna walk away, just do so softly
I ain't in the mood to talk, so get up off me
No one ever leaves their home to go somewhere they detest
Come on come on come on...
On the fifteenth floor of a New York skyrise
But when I talk to you at the office party
You said you couldn't move 'cause your boss needs you around
I want to spend the night in a cheap motel room
We can live in sin if you really want to
'Cause I've been thinking hard about doing something
About the way I felt the past two years or so
If you wanna walk away, just do so softly
I ain't in the mood to talk, so get up off me
No one ever leaves their home to go somewhere they detest
Come on come on come on...
Lyrics submitted by miki
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It sounds like he is saying threesome but I don't know. I will have to listen to it a few more times to make sure that is what he is saying.