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.
Well it's four in the morning,
Things are getting heavy,
And we both know that it's over, but we both are not ready
And you're talking like a stranger
So I don't know what to do
And I'm callous and I'm cruel, to everyone but you
And the stars shining through our window
And the stars shining through our window
And it's been awhile since I stared at the stars
Yeah, it's been awhile, since I stared at the stars
Spring can be the cruelest of months
But bringing in your life
Yeah we're promising so much
Like the pledge that you gave when you said that you'd always love me
But we both know by autumn you're like the color of leaves
And the stars shining through our window
And the stars shining through our window
And it's been awhile since I stared at the stars
Yeah it's been awhile since I stared at the stars
Well I don't think that it's the end
But I know we can't keep going
Well I don't think that it's the end
But I know we can't keep going
'Cause blue skies are coming but I know that it's hard
Things are getting heavy,
And we both know that it's over, but we both are not ready
And you're talking like a stranger
So I don't know what to do
And I'm callous and I'm cruel, to everyone but you
And the stars shining through our window
And the stars shining through our window
And it's been awhile since I stared at the stars
Yeah, it's been awhile, since I stared at the stars
Spring can be the cruelest of months
But bringing in your life
Yeah we're promising so much
Like the pledge that you gave when you said that you'd always love me
But we both know by autumn you're like the color of leaves
And the stars shining through our window
And the stars shining through our window
And it's been awhile since I stared at the stars
Yeah it's been awhile since I stared at the stars
Well I don't think that it's the end
But I know we can't keep going
Well I don't think that it's the end
But I know we can't keep going
'Cause blue skies are coming but I know that it's hard
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for the past three months this song really has been my relationship and now my break-up. knowing that you're going to have to lose somebody because they're changing, they're hardly the person you knew in the first place. it hurts for a while but you know you'll be over it soon enough. this song is particularly special to me as me and my ex used to lay under the sky and watch the stars, and one of the lines in the chorus says "it's been a while since i stared at the stars."
i think the whole song is about how while charlie fink was still with laura marling she was distancing herself from him; "you're talking like a stranger, and i don't know what to do." knowing that the relationship near enough over is always terribly difficult, charlie sings how they both aren't ready to leave each other. but, of course, this really is only because they have been together for so long now that neither of them knew any better but to be together - even if they were unhappy. "we both know that by autumn you're the colour of leaves." i think this means that she is changing and soon enough she'll be a whole different person, and she won't love charlie anymore. the ending of the song says "we know we can't keep going." suggesting that they are closer than ever to finishing. "blue skies are coming but i know that it's hard" really means that things WILL get better, he knows that. but right now, everything positive is being shadowed by the thought of losing laura.