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.
She wishes her boyfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
She wishes her boyfriend looked more like a girl
She wishes her boyfriend had cheekbones that cut ya
It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
And she wishes her boyfriend had a David Bowie cat suit
She wishes her boyfriend wore an Elizabethan ruff
She wishes her boyfriend used Nicky Clarke crimpers
She wishes her boyfriend wasn’t so tough...
River Island, Dorothy Perkins, Gap, Ethel Austin
Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop
Hey! Glam! Who’s your man or who’s your girl I cannot tell?
Stack-heels. What’s the deal? Are you keeping it safe or are you keeping it real, sir?
Hey! Joe! What do you know?
Cheese-cloth shirts are back in Vogue, sir.
Mod boy, have you seen us in plimsols, GENIUS?!
Hey! You! What you going through?
I get my shirts from Woolworths too, sir.
OAOP tell the truth, where d’ya get those furry boots, sir?
In, out, shake it all about. Goths are out, they’re in, they’re out.
Speeding up, it’s getting frantic!
Now I’m King of the New Romantics!
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding.
He wishes his girlfriend was king of the MODZ
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like a girlfriend
He wishes his girlfriend had legs like curtain rods (and)
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
He wishes she was so easily amused
He wishes his girlfriend drank Bailey’s on ice
He wishes he wasn’t so damn confused
Instrumental
Hey Glam who’s your man or who’s your girl I cannot tell?
Stack-heels. What’s the deal? Are you keeping it safe or are you keeping it real, sir?
Hey! Joe! What do you know?
Cheese-cloth shirts are back in Vogue, sir.
Mod boy, have you seen us in plimsols, GENIUS?!
Hey! You! What you going through?
I get my shirts from Woolworths too, sir.
OAOP tell the truth, where d’ya get those furry boots, sir?
In, out, shake it all about. Goths are out, they’re in, they’re out.
Speeding up, it’s getting frantic!
Now I’m King of the New Romantics!
She wishes her boyfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
She wishes her boyfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
Now love lies bleeding...
She wishes her boyfriend looked more like a girl
She wishes her boyfriend had cheekbones that cut ya
It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
And she wishes her boyfriend had a David Bowie cat suit
She wishes her boyfriend wore an Elizabethan ruff
She wishes her boyfriend used Nicky Clarke crimpers
She wishes her boyfriend wasn’t so tough...
River Island, Dorothy Perkins, Gap, Ethel Austin
Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop, Topshop
Hey! Glam! Who’s your man or who’s your girl I cannot tell?
Stack-heels. What’s the deal? Are you keeping it safe or are you keeping it real, sir?
Hey! Joe! What do you know?
Cheese-cloth shirts are back in Vogue, sir.
Mod boy, have you seen us in plimsols, GENIUS?!
Hey! You! What you going through?
I get my shirts from Woolworths too, sir.
OAOP tell the truth, where d’ya get those furry boots, sir?
In, out, shake it all about. Goths are out, they’re in, they’re out.
Speeding up, it’s getting frantic!
Now I’m King of the New Romantics!
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding.
He wishes his girlfriend was king of the MODZ
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like a girlfriend
He wishes his girlfriend had legs like curtain rods (and)
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
He wishes she was so easily amused
He wishes his girlfriend drank Bailey’s on ice
He wishes he wasn’t so damn confused
Instrumental
Hey Glam who’s your man or who’s your girl I cannot tell?
Stack-heels. What’s the deal? Are you keeping it safe or are you keeping it real, sir?
Hey! Joe! What do you know?
Cheese-cloth shirts are back in Vogue, sir.
Mod boy, have you seen us in plimsols, GENIUS?!
Hey! You! What you going through?
I get my shirts from Woolworths too, sir.
OAOP tell the truth, where d’ya get those furry boots, sir?
In, out, shake it all about. Goths are out, they’re in, they’re out.
Speeding up, it’s getting frantic!
Now I’m King of the New Romantics!
She wishes her boyfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
She wishes her boyfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
He wishes his girlfriend looked more like Noel Fielding
Now love lies bleeding...
Lyrics submitted by snowybear123
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ahhh GOD! this song is amazing. I love it.