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.
Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs
They're begging, barking, bashing at their homes
Cold and wet and dirty like the earth
That mashes muddy molding marching boots
Now rain is beating beats and beading down the view
That foggy, hazy drumming of the rain
Hear that outside? They're coming in
They're banging, knocking, shouting at the door
Fists are heavy, pounds of pounding placed
Firm and steady rhythms that they pace
Out and in and in and out, we named
Everything and everyone we've known
Hear that outside? We lost our homes
Given up in loans and time we paid
Worth more to us than them, so we end
Our lives with backs that strained to find
A pretty place and life to call our own
A place that we will never, ever know
Hear that outside? We lost the war
How easy it is done, if we never knew
It started back before I was born
All of us, all of us were rubber souls
We borrowed life and shared it with our own
And now we need to stretch and find our own
Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs
They're begging, barking, bashing at their homes
Cold and wet and dirty like the earth
That mashes muddy molding marching boots
Now rain is beating beats and beading down the view
That foggy, hazy drumming of that rain
Hear that outside? It's changing airs
And bleeding out the colors of the world
They're begging, barking, bashing at their homes
Cold and wet and dirty like the earth
That mashes muddy molding marching boots
Now rain is beating beats and beading down the view
That foggy, hazy drumming of the rain
Hear that outside? They're coming in
They're banging, knocking, shouting at the door
Fists are heavy, pounds of pounding placed
Firm and steady rhythms that they pace
Out and in and in and out, we named
Everything and everyone we've known
Hear that outside? We lost our homes
Given up in loans and time we paid
Worth more to us than them, so we end
Our lives with backs that strained to find
A pretty place and life to call our own
A place that we will never, ever know
Hear that outside? We lost the war
How easy it is done, if we never knew
It started back before I was born
All of us, all of us were rubber souls
We borrowed life and shared it with our own
And now we need to stretch and find our own
Hear that outside? Go feed the dogs
They're begging, barking, bashing at their homes
Cold and wet and dirty like the earth
That mashes muddy molding marching boots
Now rain is beating beats and beading down the view
That foggy, hazy drumming of that rain
Hear that outside? It's changing airs
And bleeding out the colors of the world
Lyrics submitted by lendmeyourbrain
Out and In and In and Out Lyrics as written by John Baldwin Gourley
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Cold and wet and dirty like the earth. Best line ever.