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.
""So cold in the night where the river flows where the river flows. So cold in the night where the river flows where the river flows. Sail away hey I'm sorry; every day is a new day. Hooray for love hey I'm lonely Trying to find a new way. So cold in the night where the rivers slow say the river's slow So cold in the night where the rivers slow say the river's slow So cold... Connect! So cold in the night hold on hold on So cold in the night hold on hold on Sail away hey I'm sorry; every day's a new day Hooray for love hey I'm lonely Try and be on your way On your way on your way On your way She loves me not [Narrator] Having made their way through space Captain Spectacular and his intrepid crew have arrived in Nebulo Nine. Unbeknownst to the humans Ziltoid has also arrived! [Ziltoid] Haha! Surprise!""
Lyrics submitted by Led_by_the_reaper
Hyperdrive Lyrics as written by Devin Garrett Townsend
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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In Ziltoid it's "Hey I'm only trying the alien way" at the second hooray for love, and it's also "so cold, in the night, with a river song, sing a river song" but it's different in the Addicted version