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.
Water gray
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
But there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now
Now I
Now I do
(Oh-oh-oh-oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh)
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't wanna reach for me, do you?
I mean nothin' to you
The little things give you away
But there will be no mistakin'
The levees are breakin'
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water
I do
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now
Now I
Now I do
(Oh-oh-oh-oh)
(Oh, oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh-oh)
(Oh)
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
Little things give you away
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
All you've ever wanted (little things give you away)
Was someone to truly look up to you (little things give you away)
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I agree. Pretty close to what I felt when I first heard this song too.