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'll hold your hand while they drag the river
I'll cuddle you in the undertow
I'll keep my hand on your trigger finger
I'll take you down where the train tracks go
Let's wile away the hours
Let's spend an evil night together
We'll drink a toast in the torture chamber
And you'll go down on a bed of nails
We'll rendevous in cold blood
I'll tie you up to the third rail
Let's wile away the hours
Let's spend an evil night together
Who's gonna make you a hero
Who's gonna blow you away
Who's gonna make you a hero
Hold it right there
It's a multiple down in solitary
And you'll uncover the evidence
Shanghaied by a fishnet stocking
I'll hold you close while they dust for prints
Let's wile away the hours
Let's spend an evil night together
No need for cake or flowers
Let's spend an evil night together
I'll cuddle you in the undertow
I'll keep my hand on your trigger finger
I'll take you down where the train tracks go
Let's wile away the hours
Let's spend an evil night together
We'll drink a toast in the torture chamber
And you'll go down on a bed of nails
We'll rendevous in cold blood
I'll tie you up to the third rail
Let's wile away the hours
Let's spend an evil night together
Who's gonna make you a hero
Who's gonna blow you away
Who's gonna make you a hero
Hold it right there
It's a multiple down in solitary
And you'll uncover the evidence
Shanghaied by a fishnet stocking
I'll hold you close while they dust for prints
Let's wile away the hours
Let's spend an evil night together
No need for cake or flowers
Let's spend an evil night together
Lyrics submitted by jaaames
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i love this song!
I'm just hearing this for the first time on Pandora. It's great! So haunting and unique. The meaning is pretty obvious: "Let's spend an evil night together."
Pandora gave me this song, too! It's absolutely delightful. I think it's about a couple committing crimes together. Romantic in a creepy way.
Obviously, it is about sex. She is even commenting in the end of the song that there is no need for romancing her with "cake or flowers" in order to have that "evil night together."
it's "while" not wile
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i heard this song in a movie which was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
It actually is wile, not while. wile means to entice, lure or manipulate someone or something to do as you want. It sounds more like she's describing how she will stand by a killer as he is being discovered.