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.
Now as we speed a little faster through the stars
To this new world of ours
With the seed that the garden requires
And as we drift a little further from the shore
Like the sea evermore
I'm the ivy that clings round your door
When you wake up
You will find
That you're not where you left yourself
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Now as we drift a little further down the stream
Was it all what it seemed
Was it true
Was it real
Or just a dream
When you wake up
You will find
That you're not where you left yourself
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Now as we speed a little faster through the stars
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
To this new world of ours
With the seed that the garden requires
And as we drift a little further from the shore
Like the sea evermore
I'm the ivy that clings round your door
When you wake up
You will find
That you're not where you left yourself
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Now as we drift a little further down the stream
Was it all what it seemed
Was it true
Was it real
Or just a dream
When you wake up
You will find
That you're not where you left yourself
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Now as we speed a little faster through the stars
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Ahhhh
Lyrics submitted by andwebreathe
When You Wake Up Lyrics as written by Justin Hayward John Charles Lodge
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Fintage House Publishing
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