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.
What is it, I don't remember
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
What is it, I don't remember
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
(There is no other way out)
I won't be on my way
I'll help you on your way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
(There is no other way out)
I won't be on my way
There's nothing more to say
So far, as you've seen
We've been the hardest team
To bear arms since Arnold Rogers was an island tree
And although the macarena has entirely been
I believe you will appreciate the rest of this dream
I got some lost damn feeling
Like I'm feeling in threat
I was the child in the forest
With the bones and the bread
I was a train at the point
Where the rail-road ends
Trying to roll across sound
On your steam in my hands
It was a trip that wouldn't wanna take again
It is a trip that I thought would never end
It was a trip that wouldn't wanna take again
It is a trip that I thought would never end
What is it, I don't remember
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
What is it, I don't remember
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
What is it, I don't remember
Made my feeling so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I'll help you on your way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I'll help you on my way
There is nothing more to say
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
What is it, I don't remember
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
(There is no other way out)
I won't be on my way
I'll help you on your way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
(There is no other way out)
I won't be on my way
There's nothing more to say
So far, as you've seen
We've been the hardest team
To bear arms since Arnold Rogers was an island tree
And although the macarena has entirely been
I believe you will appreciate the rest of this dream
I got some lost damn feeling
Like I'm feeling in threat
I was the child in the forest
With the bones and the bread
I was a train at the point
Where the rail-road ends
Trying to roll across sound
On your steam in my hands
It was a trip that wouldn't wanna take again
It is a trip that I thought would never end
It was a trip that wouldn't wanna take again
It is a trip that I thought would never end
What is it, I don't remember
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
What is it, I don't remember
Made my being so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
What is it, I don't remember
Made my feeling so much better
If I can have just one pure thought
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I'll help you on your way
I won't be on my way
I won't be on my way
I'll help you on my way
There is nothing more to say
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"Like I'm feeling in threat" sounds like "Like a following threat" to me.