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.
Winter taking days.
Nights filled with longer hours
...
Winter solstice
passing by us
temperatures dropping
try us
With colder feelings
Black ice and hidden lusts
White sheets of snow concealing
Gloves on hands, with warmer thoughts
With plastic sleds cracking the newly [chouse/inaudible]
Huddling against the walls
Shrinking college trends, with the days living faster now
We cast our make pretend
Extra heat amends
A rising constant power
Darkness taking days
Nights filled with longer hours
...
Gotta jagged gorgeous winter from a summer's thread
All the lies you told about me they were totally totally totally true
Thinking through the noise you go back to bed
With your tinker tinker torch gotta think it think it think it through
...
Drag it out
...
Nights filled with longer hours
...
Winter solstice
passing by us
temperatures dropping
try us
With colder feelings
Black ice and hidden lusts
White sheets of snow concealing
Gloves on hands, with warmer thoughts
With plastic sleds cracking the newly [chouse/inaudible]
Huddling against the walls
Shrinking college trends, with the days living faster now
We cast our make pretend
Extra heat amends
A rising constant power
Darkness taking days
Nights filled with longer hours
...
Gotta jagged gorgeous winter from a summer's thread
All the lies you told about me they were totally totally totally true
Thinking through the noise you go back to bed
With your tinker tinker torch gotta think it think it think it through
...
Drag it out
...
Lyrics submitted by nmacholl
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Oh guys, no, no,no and no. Listen, its about a guy and a girl breaking up. Its all a metaphore hidden. Cant you tell? Hes using winter to describe her and her feelings. ThE DARK ICE, AND COLDNESS is metaphoricaly her cold heart and cold feelings. Some parts sneak into his past also.