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.
Baby, everything you say, say
Shoots me through the chest
Yeah, everytime everytime
Maybe, we can only pray, pray
I want to digress
Yeah everytime
And I'm gone to
Pretending this way out, to
Here we go again
My dearest to my love
We write these letters, pump the stereo
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
[Chorus:]
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead, anyway.
(Anyway)
Baby, everything you do, do
Dries my lonely lips
Yeah, everytime everytime
Could you
Collide with my lies, lies
Crashing with my stitch
Yeah everytime
And I'm gone to
Pretending this way out, to
Here we go again
My dearest to my love
We write these letters, pump the stereo
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you watch me hit that..
HIGH (wooh)
You know it's all because of you
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
When he goes away..
Away!
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous.
Shoots me through the chest
Yeah, everytime everytime
Maybe, we can only pray, pray
I want to digress
Yeah everytime
And I'm gone to
Pretending this way out, to
Here we go again
My dearest to my love
We write these letters, pump the stereo
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
[Chorus:]
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead, anyway.
(Anyway)
Baby, everything you do, do
Dries my lonely lips
Yeah, everytime everytime
Could you
Collide with my lies, lies
Crashing with my stitch
Yeah everytime
And I'm gone to
Pretending this way out, to
Here we go again
My dearest to my love
We write these letters, pump the stereo
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
Can you turn off the lights and radio
(and up the stereo)
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you watch me hit that..
HIGH (wooh)
You know it's all because of you
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
(Here we go again)
(Go, go, go again)
When he goes away..
Away!
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you die to hear me say
(I just don't care)
Hope you drop dead gorgeous.
Lyrics submitted by Maddie,fabregas
Drop Dead Gorgeous Lyrics as written by Shaun Donald Diviney Andrew Nicholai Clemmensen
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Wow I can't believe no one else has commented this. I remember first hearing this song ages ago on tv & my mum kept talkin & I was just like SHUT UP coz from the intro I thought it looked rad.
Anyway, that was forever ago...
This song is obviously about getting over someone & just bein lyk "I don't care about u, I'm better than u" Idk... its not as if anyone else has any other opinion or they woulda written it lol
I think you might be right ^^^<br /> He thinks she's really drop dead gorgeous<br /> but shes a bitch so he hopes she drops dead <br /> :D
I think you might be right ^^^<br /> He thinks she's really drop dead gorgeous<br /> but shes a bitch so he hopes she drops dead <br /> :D