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.
At 6 p.m.
We're selling everything that we can find
Oh, for another line
Get a hold of yourself, you say
We're bound to get caught
And maybe then I can get clean
One more day to sulk to the scene
Harder for some, you say
Oh, I told, I told
Her about everything and you and me
Oh, I sold, I sold
Out everything but you, you see
Oh, oh
We're bound to get caught
We're bound to get caught
We're bound to get caught
We're bound to get caught
Oh oh, oh oh
We're bound to get caught
Oh, I told, I told
Her about everything and you and me
Oh, I sold, I sold
Out everything but you, you see
Oh, oh
Oh, I told, I told
Her about everything and you and me
Oh, I sold, I sold
Out everything but you, you see
Oh, oh, oh
We're selling everything that we can find
Oh, for another line
Get a hold of yourself, you say
We're bound to get caught
And maybe then I can get clean
One more day to sulk to the scene
Harder for some, you say
Oh, I told, I told
Her about everything and you and me
Oh, I sold, I sold
Out everything but you, you see
Oh, oh
We're bound to get caught
We're bound to get caught
We're bound to get caught
We're bound to get caught
Oh oh, oh oh
We're bound to get caught
Oh, I told, I told
Her about everything and you and me
Oh, I sold, I sold
Out everything but you, you see
Oh, oh
Oh, I told, I told
Her about everything and you and me
Oh, I sold, I sold
Out everything but you, you see
Oh, oh, oh
Lyrics submitted by jeremyXOXO, edited by HatScripts
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I was at the show the toher night
the one in Joplin at the foundry on 11/25/07
and i asked him what this song meant
and then he was all like "this song is actually about a time in my life when my friends where into drugs" that wasn't exactly verbatim
but u get the idea
so there you go straight from the horses mouth