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.
Running faster than I ever have
Evading sharks of the sky
Death trap and I kill again
Dig through my own hives
Shelter from sky
Talon of raptor
Force-fed glass giant moth
Reaping fields of the flesh
Heavy hand thwart the scheme
Of the dominant nymph
Omen she brings
Carried on weathered wings
Fly reptile
Leather wings
Bones hollow
Petrified
Running faster than I ever have
Evading sharks of the sky
The earth's ashing floats
What is good for man
Cast us out into the known
Evading sharks of the sky
Death trap and I kill again
Dig through my own hives
Shelter from sky
Talon of raptor
Force-fed glass giant moth
Reaping fields of the flesh
Heavy hand thwart the scheme
Of the dominant nymph
Omen she brings
Carried on weathered wings
Fly reptile
Leather wings
Bones hollow
Petrified
Running faster than I ever have
Evading sharks of the sky
The earth's ashing floats
What is good for man
Cast us out into the known
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Hahaha, right.. and what about the flying sharks, are these the equivalents of European compact cars?
Yes...yes they are.
wtf are you guys talking about? Actually I'm 2 years in the future so... It's about the protagonist being attacked by the hunters that he escaped from at the beginning. They are flying shark creatures. He feinds them off and continues his quest onward.
I think its about a dragon or some sort of creature like that attacking the protaginist
I don't think it's literally supposed to mean sharks probably a kind of bird or griffin or something is now chasing him after he escapes the birchmen
i personally think that it might have some more of a deeper meaning than the storyline of the album like someone in war
"Running faster than I ever have Evading sharks in the sky Death trap and I kill again Dig through my own hives"
obviously someone taking cover from fire and killing in war on home soil
"Force-fed glass giant moth Reaping fields of the flesh"
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"Omen she brings Carried on weathered wings"
soldiers are shown as heros, but not many know what they bring to other countries