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 the foot of a forest of dark hair
Is a door there, and here comes the key
As the grammar of one finger
Forms a language
Of this ecstasy
Where the back of her neck
Meets the back of her leg
Meets the back of her head
Meets the back of her breast
Falling further into marriage
This love would need not shout its name
And as the missile learns its target
Where sediments should stay
As the back of your head
Meets the back of my leg
Meets the back of my head
Meets the back of your breast
Meets the back of our legs
Meets the back of our necks
Meets the back
The back and beyond
Is a door there, and here comes the key
As the grammar of one finger
Forms a language
Of this ecstasy
Where the back of her neck
Meets the back of her leg
Meets the back of her head
Meets the back of her breast
Falling further into marriage
This love would need not shout its name
And as the missile learns its target
Where sediments should stay
As the back of your head
Meets the back of my leg
Meets the back of my head
Meets the back of your breast
Meets the back of our legs
Meets the back of our necks
Meets the back
The back and beyond
Lyrics submitted by DaLocoBrat
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this song is beautiful. Patrick can perfectly explain romance without cliches. I think that this song is about Patrick's lost love. He says that he has never got over the girl that he loved at the age of fifteen and bases a lot of his songs on her. I suspect this song was written almost as what could have been if the relationship continued.