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.
I am an island underneath the setting sun
In an ocean that is churning
For all I know there might be nobody nearby
Still, the world, it keeps on turning
And when that sun goes down
It gets brighter in my heart somehow
I don't know why this is
But it's what I want to know
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
We're looking for
That summer home
Beside the sea
And for the future
Since I left you I'm a gold balloon that wanders high
I won't sing through rainbows and showers
Taking lovers just might keep my tears at bay
But the dam can break at any hour
By candle-light you seem
To deepen in your mysteries
Confusing forces move
At the tides of these seas
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
We're looking for
The ones we've hurt
Just to forgive us
In the future
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
No metaphors
Are needed from
This time onwards
In the
Some
Oh
Ah
Oh
And when the sun goes down
It gets brighter in my heart somehow
I don't know why this is
But it's what I'd like to know
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
We're looking for
The ones we've hurt
Just to forgive us
In the future
Sometimes we start over
And just go solo
No metaphors
Are needed from
This time onwards
In this song
In an ocean that is churning
For all I know there might be nobody nearby
Still, the world, it keeps on turning
And when that sun goes down
It gets brighter in my heart somehow
I don't know why this is
But it's what I want to know
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
We're looking for
That summer home
Beside the sea
And for the future
Since I left you I'm a gold balloon that wanders high
I won't sing through rainbows and showers
Taking lovers just might keep my tears at bay
But the dam can break at any hour
By candle-light you seem
To deepen in your mysteries
Confusing forces move
At the tides of these seas
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
We're looking for
The ones we've hurt
Just to forgive us
In the future
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
No metaphors
Are needed from
This time onwards
In the
Some
Oh
Ah
Oh
And when the sun goes down
It gets brighter in my heart somehow
I don't know why this is
But it's what I'd like to know
Sometimes we start over
And go solo
We're looking for
The ones we've hurt
Just to forgive us
In the future
Sometimes we start over
And just go solo
No metaphors
Are needed from
This time onwards
In this song
Lyrics submitted by willhirsch
Sometimes Lyrics as written by Daniel John Montagu Smith James Ross Morrison
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, O/B/O DistroKid, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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