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 see the King of Glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes, the whole earth shakes, yeah
I see His love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing, the people sing
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith, with selfless faith
I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees, we're on our knees
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna in the highest
In the highest
In the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes, the whole earth shakes, yeah
I see His love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing, the people sing
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith, with selfless faith
I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees, we're on our knees
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Hosanna in the highest
In the highest
In the highest
Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
The first three lines, about the king of glory coming on the clouds with fire, generally signifies judgement, and the whole earth shaking might signify the accompanying upheavals and restructuring of the power structure, the downfall of authorities and kingdoms and the rise of new ones. It contrasts very well with the next three lines, about his love and mercy. However, these characteristics, those of love and mercy and those of righteousness and judgement, are not opposed, but work in concert (no pun intended).
@keetrainchild That's a very good analysis you've made of the opening to the song, which begins with "I see...". I would like to hear the composer's own interpretation of this song, why it is they see what they see and when do they see it happening - the mention of a near revival seems to indicate their dream/sight of something in the near future, but is the same true of the content in the first 2 verses, which has echoes of Isaiah chapter 30 ? This song is all a bit ethereal to me, how can you sing it with it conviction if it's not clear what you're singing ? I don't mind spending time interpreting Scripture, but I do I really have to spend so much time working out what it is I'm singing in church as well ?
This song means a lot in my life,it even makes me be relieved always when I sing it❤️
"Hossana" - Praise Him. Hossana in the highest. PRAISE HIM in the highest!
"I see his love and mercy Washing over all our sin" - just, thank you Lord! for saving us like that! and ridding us of sin! just amazing!
"I see a generation Rising up to take the place With selfless faith, with selfless faith" - only through you! just, remind holy, and selfless in faith, and everything we do!
"Open up my eyes to the things unseen" - to all the things you have done!
this song is so amazing, it always makes me rememeber of what He has done. it is so awesome! it is just amazing!
@miss_rayzie Such a beautiful song
that's how i've always heard it too.. but anytime i go to lyric pages, it says 'break my heart for what is yours' - but i never hear it sang that way.
oh, buttt i also hear it 'break my heart FOR what breaks yours' [not from]
oh well, either way, it means the same thing to me, and it's an amazing song.
"Hosanna" is an exclamation of praise literally meaning, "Save, I pray".
I thought Hossana was another name for God though... I guess it kindof is. idk
My church and youth group sings this song. It's one of my favorites.
i love this song its so good!!! i really like this song!
@godzchild So you like it - do you know what it means ?
"Break my heart from what breaks yours"
A...mazing!!!
I see the King of glory, Coming on the clouds with fire. The whole earth shakes, The whole earth shakes.
I see His love and mercy, Washing over all our sin. The people sing, The people sing.
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
I see ageneration, Rising up to take their place. With selfless faith, with selfless faith.
I see a near revival, Stirring as we pray and seek. We're on our knees, we're on are knees
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest
Heal my heart and make it clean, Open up my eyes to the things unseen. Show me how to love like you have loved me.
Break my heart for what breaks Yours. Everything I am for your kongdoms cause, As I walk from earth into eternity
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
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