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.
From the fields of concrete slabs, towers of Stone
'Cross an ocean before his bow
Came the haggard Warrior all clad in rust of
The Rainbow to tell us how
Our ways unchanged for centuries do dismay
Concrete hearts
Wake emotions perfect for his confidence tricks
And though we may be human we are still animals
Weakling of the food chain, the only way
That I see is to
Curse the weak link, What's out
Come your down fall, Lights out
May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats
No more, there are no Lights on
That obtrusive creep all, What's on
By the fields of good and green, mountains of
Home, in an ocean beneath the sun
Stood the haggard Warrior, now his crusade,
Fame and fortune it had begun
So holier than thou art, all marine mammals friend
Change your evil ways now or with terror I strike
Why can't you do like we do, pay your way
'Round the blood
When it's on the table you won't know
Whence it came, I say
Curse the weak link, What's out
Come your down fall, Lights out
May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats
No more, there are no Lights on
That obtrusive creep all, What's on
To the fields of concrete slabs, towers of
Stone. 'cross an ocean behind his stern
Went the haggard Warrior all clad in rust of
The Rainbow, when will they learn
That nature is against them, with that all
Stands and falls
Weakling of the food chain, the only way
That I see is to
Curse the weak link, What's out
Come your down fall, Lights out
May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats
No more, there are no Lights on
That obtrusive creep all, What's on
'Cross an ocean before his bow
Came the haggard Warrior all clad in rust of
The Rainbow to tell us how
Our ways unchanged for centuries do dismay
Concrete hearts
Wake emotions perfect for his confidence tricks
And though we may be human we are still animals
Weakling of the food chain, the only way
That I see is to
Curse the weak link, What's out
Come your down fall, Lights out
May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats
No more, there are no Lights on
That obtrusive creep all, What's on
By the fields of good and green, mountains of
Home, in an ocean beneath the sun
Stood the haggard Warrior, now his crusade,
Fame and fortune it had begun
So holier than thou art, all marine mammals friend
Change your evil ways now or with terror I strike
Why can't you do like we do, pay your way
'Round the blood
When it's on the table you won't know
Whence it came, I say
Curse the weak link, What's out
Come your down fall, Lights out
May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats
No more, there are no Lights on
That obtrusive creep all, What's on
To the fields of concrete slabs, towers of
Stone. 'cross an ocean behind his stern
Went the haggard Warrior all clad in rust of
The Rainbow, when will they learn
That nature is against them, with that all
Stands and falls
Weakling of the food chain, the only way
That I see is to
Curse the weak link, What's out
Come your down fall, Lights out
May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats
No more, there are no Lights on
That obtrusive creep all, What's on
Lyrics submitted by elvin_wizard
Rainbow Warrior Lyrics as written by Heri Joensen
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Im pretty sure this song has something to do with the Greenpeace ship of the same name, although i haven't looked into it enough to make a complete connection
It is about the ecofreedom terrorist organisation called Sea Shepherd.