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.
Come down Come down
from your willow tree
Come down Come down and talk to me
can not reach your hand from this grown where I stand
and the world is too much with us
today
fly down fly down
from your willow tree
alight, alight on my bended knee
come let a stream of impossible things
the sound bells the fluttering of things
ohh rest a while here the wild blue
crackle and flame
I know why that bird still sings
My heart, my heart tried to take its flignt
to get to you I do wrong I do right
take to the air change the color of the sun
say goodbye to everything I've done
change my ways till my dying day
set prayers on fire
throw desire
to burn time
from your willow tree
Come down Come down and talk to me
can not reach your hand from this grown where I stand
and the world is too much with us
today
fly down fly down
from your willow tree
alight, alight on my bended knee
come let a stream of impossible things
the sound bells the fluttering of things
ohh rest a while here the wild blue
crackle and flame
I know why that bird still sings
My heart, my heart tried to take its flignt
to get to you I do wrong I do right
take to the air change the color of the sun
say goodbye to everything I've done
change my ways till my dying day
set prayers on fire
throw desire
to burn time
Lyrics submitted by Guarimn
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