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.
No there's nothing too romantic about the way we met
That's not to say, it doesn't make a certain sense
Maybe it's just the kind of people that we are
That's not to say whether it's right or wrong
It's not right or wrong, it's not right or wrong
There's no cute story that we tell together
Laughing and finishing each other's sentences so charmingly
Truth is it was all an accident
Just like it is for everybody else
But then again it was all and accident
Just like the way it is for everybody else
Later we had toast, took turns sitting on the windowsill
Like two fields of wheat
We'll sent signals cross the kitchen sharp and sweet
There's no cute story about the way we met
We just woke up one day in bed
Shouted out for alarm clocks
Where's the remote control?
Put the blankets and the chairs against the windows and doors
And stayed close together, trying to stay warm, oh
Now there's nothing too romantic about the way we met
That's not to say it doesn't make a certain sense
Maybe it's just the kind of people that we are
It's gone to far to be right or wrong
Now, now, now, now
That's not to say, it doesn't make a certain sense
Maybe it's just the kind of people that we are
That's not to say whether it's right or wrong
It's not right or wrong, it's not right or wrong
There's no cute story that we tell together
Laughing and finishing each other's sentences so charmingly
Truth is it was all an accident
Just like it is for everybody else
But then again it was all and accident
Just like the way it is for everybody else
Later we had toast, took turns sitting on the windowsill
Like two fields of wheat
We'll sent signals cross the kitchen sharp and sweet
There's no cute story about the way we met
We just woke up one day in bed
Shouted out for alarm clocks
Where's the remote control?
Put the blankets and the chairs against the windows and doors
And stayed close together, trying to stay warm, oh
Now there's nothing too romantic about the way we met
That's not to say it doesn't make a certain sense
Maybe it's just the kind of people that we are
It's gone to far to be right or wrong
Now, now, now, now
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