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.
Did my sister marry? Does the
house look the same? In a sort of
way, I am walking home.
In a certain light at a certain hour,
I could stay here, but that don't feel
like me.
And the feeling wanes from a man
inbetween. It was easier, when you
were easier on me.
I thought i had it, I really did.
There is a place.
Did my sister marry? Does the
house look the same? In a sort of
way, I am walking home.
Maybe I'm a fool, alright.
But ask me how I slept last night.
I thought i had it, boy I really
did. I thought I had it but I
guess I don't.
There is a place.
In a certain light at a certain hour
I still feel like I am seventeen.
house look the same? In a sort of
way, I am walking home.
In a certain light at a certain hour,
I could stay here, but that don't feel
like me.
And the feeling wanes from a man
inbetween. It was easier, when you
were easier on me.
I thought i had it, I really did.
There is a place.
Did my sister marry? Does the
house look the same? In a sort of
way, I am walking home.
Maybe I'm a fool, alright.
But ask me how I slept last night.
I thought i had it, boy I really
did. I thought I had it but I
guess I don't.
There is a place.
In a certain light at a certain hour
I still feel like I am seventeen.
Lyrics submitted by lookingwest
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Nostalgia lined with regrets or what could of been.
I'm not very old yet but I'm not young, but this seems to be about the stories humans need to connect themselves from the present to the past.