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'm serving time
All for a crime I did commit
You want the truth?
You know I'd do it all again
Left for dead
Heaven is only in my head
I heard a voice
Calling from down inside the well
"See that silver shine?"
She said to come claim what was mine
So down I fell
Down into the water black
My prison cell
Only the moon was shining back
If I seem lost, well, I weighted the cost
And chose my crime
Now it's mine all mine
I heard the voice
Calling from just outside the well
She said, "you fool, now that you know your end is near
You always fall for what you desire or what you fear"
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
If you leave the ships are gonna wreck
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
Can you see the far side, the ships are going to wreck
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
All for a crime I did commit
You want the truth?
You know I'd do it all again
Left for dead
Heaven is only in my head
I heard a voice
Calling from down inside the well
"See that silver shine?"
She said to come claim what was mine
So down I fell
Down into the water black
My prison cell
Only the moon was shining back
If I seem lost, well, I weighted the cost
And chose my crime
Now it's mine all mine
I heard the voice
Calling from just outside the well
She said, "you fool, now that you know your end is near
You always fall for what you desire or what you fear"
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
If you leave the ships are gonna wreck
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
Can you see the far side, the ships are going to wreck
Resurrected
Living in a lighthouse
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet
Lyrics submitted by afimrtl, edited by Mellow_Harsher
The Well and the Lighthouse Lyrics as written by Regine Chassagne Jeremy Gara
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All of the above is prorably true... HOWEVER! There is a Grim Fairy Tail that i wast told as a child about a Boy who heard a girl calling out for help form the bottom of a well, he could see her and see that she had a silver locket... And he figgured he would rescure her and take/be given the locket as a reward.
He climbs down the well, and shes gone... he hears her outside the well and she says hes a greedy fool.
The moral was a) not to be greedy b) if your going to do something, do it for the right reasons... In the story he was going to help her BUT only to be rewarded.