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 can say it more than once
'Cause I'm thinking twice as fast, yodel-ayde-a
Everything I like is nice
That's why I try to have it twice, yodel-ayde-a
Well, once I saw a bore
Who was a social whore, yodel-ayde-a
And they said I had a limp
And then they tried to pass around a pimp, yodel-ayde-a
Was on my last leg
I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg at all, yodel-ayde-a
Once I turned red
And it looked funny in the head, yodel-ayde-a
'Cause I'm thinking twice as fast, yodel-ayde-a
Everything I like is nice
That's why I try to have it twice, yodel-ayde-a
Well, once I saw a bore
Who was a social whore, yodel-ayde-a
And they said I had a limp
And then they tried to pass around a pimp, yodel-ayde-a
Was on my last leg
I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg at all, yodel-ayde-a
Once I turned red
And it looked funny in the head, yodel-ayde-a
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Innocent? Bullshit. It sounds like a junkie child molester poking at you from a dark alley with his sharpened cane carved from his brother's thighbone after he killed him over a hand of poker. Sly is fucking evil on this song, this whole album. So fucking evil that he's holy.