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.
When I was young, lying in the grass
I felt so safe in a warming bath
Of sunlight
Of sunlight.
Vast open sky
Could do no harm
Like an embrace
From mother's arms
In sunlight
In sunlight.
In sunlight
In sunlight.
With every year that came to pass
More clouds appear until the sky went black
And there was
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
And there was
No sunlight,
No sunlight anymore.
You disappeared at the same speed
The idealistic things I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
You disappeared with the same speed
The idealistic thing I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
No sunlight,
No sunlight,
No sunlight,
No sunlight anymore.
I felt so safe in a warming bath
Of sunlight
Of sunlight.
Vast open sky
Could do no harm
Like an embrace
From mother's arms
In sunlight
In sunlight.
In sunlight
In sunlight.
With every year that came to pass
More clouds appear until the sky went black
And there was
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
And there was
No sunlight,
No sunlight anymore.
You disappeared at the same speed
The idealistic things I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
You disappeared with the same speed
The idealistic thing I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
No sunlight,
No sunlight,
No sunlight,
No sunlight anymore.
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No Innocence= No sunlight
It's such an interesting that as children we have less intelligence--but yet we have more optimism/hope/courage/. As we grow older we gain intelligence but lose some of those enduring qualities we had as children. It makes me think, which would i rather have?