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.
Kids, you have to remember that
I'm up here conducting you for a reason, okay?
Watch me, watch my fingers, here we go, ready?
Watch me, one and two and three and ready
Dès le premier jour
Ton parfum enivre, mon amour
C'est dans ces instants
J'aimerais être comme toi par moments
Mais depuis ce jour
Je n'ai qu'un seul, et unique regret
My wing tips waltz across naive wood floors
They creak innocently down the stairs
Drag melody
My percussive feet serve cobweb headaches
As a matching set of marching clocks
The slumbering apparitions
That they've come to wake up
Here I am, composing a burlesque
Out of where they rest their necks
Sunken in their splintered cradles
And ramshackle heads
They ask for it
As a girl, you have set your heart on
Haunting me forever from the start
It's never silent
Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing that makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And that one regret is you
How does a heart love
If no one has noticed its presence?
And where does it go?
Trembling hands play my heart like a drum
But the beat's gotten lost in the show
You have set your heart on
Haunting me forever from the start
It's never silent
Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing that makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And I regret never letting you know
Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing that makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And that one regret is you
Mona Lisa
Pleased to please ya (and that one regret is you)
Mona Lisa
Pleased to please ya (and that one regret is you)
Mona Lisa
Pleased to please ya (I've got just one, ahh)
I'm up here conducting you for a reason, okay?
Watch me, watch my fingers, here we go, ready?
Watch me, one and two and three and ready
Dès le premier jour
Ton parfum enivre, mon amour
C'est dans ces instants
J'aimerais être comme toi par moments
Mais depuis ce jour
Je n'ai qu'un seul, et unique regret
My wing tips waltz across naive wood floors
They creak innocently down the stairs
Drag melody
My percussive feet serve cobweb headaches
As a matching set of marching clocks
The slumbering apparitions
That they've come to wake up
Here I am, composing a burlesque
Out of where they rest their necks
Sunken in their splintered cradles
And ramshackle heads
They ask for it
As a girl, you have set your heart on
Haunting me forever from the start
It's never silent
Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing that makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And that one regret is you
How does a heart love
If no one has noticed its presence?
And where does it go?
Trembling hands play my heart like a drum
But the beat's gotten lost in the show
You have set your heart on
Haunting me forever from the start
It's never silent
Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing that makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And I regret never letting you know
Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing that makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And that one regret is you
Mona Lisa
Pleased to please ya (and that one regret is you)
Mona Lisa
Pleased to please ya (and that one regret is you)
Mona Lisa
Pleased to please ya (I've got just one, ahh)
Lyrics submitted by RelaxRelapse, edited by TR_Jessie
Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...) Lyrics as written by Butch Walker Brendon Urie
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this is amazing. it's old panic, but new. i'm currently obsessed with this mixtape. haven't a clue as to what it's saying, though.