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'll never understand
Why I have been saved
The sea sings its master plan
Over the waves
Sun rise upon the line
buckling drift
the path that I walked along
is lost in the drift
So far away from my home, will the stars return?
The wave of oppressive lights
this colourless storm
at peace with the thirst inside
away from the swarm
moments of peace will come
the wind at my heals
my body's lifeless age
is lost to its feel
so far away from my home, will the stars return?
Home is where I needed you, salvation in dreams
Heaven above me
Water below me
How can I survive this?
Swallow the sea
blood draining me too far
and I cannot stand it
and I cannot stand it
Anymore, and I cannot stand it
Anymore
Anymore, and I cannot stand it
Anymore
Anymore, and I cannot stand it
Anymore
Collusus returning
Mountain is singing
fish are fresh from the killing
Breath hitting me
return to the sea to sleep
he tries to command it (elanor)
He tries to command it (elanor)
Dearest hope has gone away
swaying out so far from me
golden to hair palm my sway
sweetest wave bring me home
Bring me home!
bring me home
bring me home
bring me home
Why I have been saved
The sea sings its master plan
Over the waves
Sun rise upon the line
buckling drift
the path that I walked along
is lost in the drift
So far away from my home, will the stars return?
The wave of oppressive lights
this colourless storm
at peace with the thirst inside
away from the swarm
moments of peace will come
the wind at my heals
my body's lifeless age
is lost to its feel
so far away from my home, will the stars return?
Home is where I needed you, salvation in dreams
Heaven above me
Water below me
How can I survive this?
Swallow the sea
blood draining me too far
and I cannot stand it
and I cannot stand it
Anymore, and I cannot stand it
Anymore
Anymore, and I cannot stand it
Anymore
Anymore, and I cannot stand it
Anymore
Collusus returning
Mountain is singing
fish are fresh from the killing
Breath hitting me
return to the sea to sleep
he tries to command it (elanor)
He tries to command it (elanor)
Dearest hope has gone away
swaying out so far from me
golden to hair palm my sway
sweetest wave bring me home
Bring me home!
bring me home
bring me home
bring me home
Lyrics submitted by daysbefore
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I absoulutly love the piano in this song and i really want to learn it. I think he misses his home and family and he is fed up with all the pressure. And maybe he is realating the sea to somthing, snce the just about the whole cd has something to do with the sea. Maybe like his career and the ups and sowns of it.