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.
Seaweeds like emerald veins
She sleep beneath the breaking weight
A silent dying ocean's slow defeat
The floods will rise and take us all
An end to all this quarrel
A final grace to rid her grief
Oh, mother, show no mercy for me
Wash the stains away, come unto me again
Open yourself beneath us all
(Swallow)
Purge the soil, burn the surface
Erase, erase the past again
(Erase)
Oh, she will sleep like
A breathing fire's kiss upon you
Oh, my darling dear walk carefully
Perhaps she'll still be there
(Wake up)
The rivers to rise again
Wash the stains away, come unto me again
Open yourself beneath us all
(Swallow)
Purge the soil, burn the surface
Erase, erase the past again
(Erase)
I am my brother’s keeper
I am my brother’s keeper
An eye for an eye until everyone’s blind
[Incomprehensible]
I’m sick of it
I’m sick of the blood
I’m sick of it
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
Don't you want something real?
Don't you want something real?
She sleep beneath the breaking weight
A silent dying ocean's slow defeat
The floods will rise and take us all
An end to all this quarrel
A final grace to rid her grief
Oh, mother, show no mercy for me
Wash the stains away, come unto me again
Open yourself beneath us all
(Swallow)
Purge the soil, burn the surface
Erase, erase the past again
(Erase)
Oh, she will sleep like
A breathing fire's kiss upon you
Oh, my darling dear walk carefully
Perhaps she'll still be there
(Wake up)
The rivers to rise again
Wash the stains away, come unto me again
Open yourself beneath us all
(Swallow)
Purge the soil, burn the surface
Erase, erase the past again
(Erase)
I am my brother’s keeper
I am my brother’s keeper
An eye for an eye until everyone’s blind
[Incomprehensible]
I’m sick of it
I’m sick of the blood
I’m sick of it
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
[Incomprehensible]
Don't you want something real?
Don't you want something real?
Lyrics submitted by CirqueDeCarnivale
The Fallout Lyrics as written by Anders Martin Bjoerler Peter Wilhard Ingvar Dolving
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I think that it's similar Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence.
He speaks about a Mother, an origin that returns like a wave to vanish again. He wish and end for all becouse tiredness. He is waiting a catharsis to erase pain and guilt but he knows that all will repeat. Like a Fallout.