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.
You fall apart each time you start to say goodbye
But there is nobody watching.
(nobody watching)
You've watched your grip, you step and slip but don't know why.
And this is just the beginning.
(just the beginning)
You had the hopes to make it last, it's moving fast.
And now you're realizing.
(realizing)
That in the past, the dreams you had make people feel
Like you were just reciting.
(just reciting)
Bathing in the afterglow;
A chance at luck and pride.
Where we end up we can never know.
And all I know is we seem to be
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
Fading, all these lights just turn to gray.
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
But the strange thing
Is that I don't feel a thing.
This is an act, stop holding back. The things you lost
Cannot replace what's missing.
(replace what's missing)
And from the start you played the part and now your heart's
Become a great deception.
Bathing in the afterglow;
A chance at luck and pride.
When we end up we can never know.
All I know is we seem to be
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
Fading, all these lights just turn to gray.
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
But the strange thing
Is that I don't feel a thing.
One last breath to say goodbye.
I tell myself another lie.
Stripped of all I hold so dear.
The moment's lost.
And I am sinking down lower,
I drown myself in the water.
And I am watching my life pass before my eyes,
It comes as no surprise.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you
Stop.
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
Fading, all these lights just turn to gray.
Now I'm changing, better to turn and walk away.
But the strange thing
Is that I don't feel a thing.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you
Stop.
But there is nobody watching.
(nobody watching)
You've watched your grip, you step and slip but don't know why.
And this is just the beginning.
(just the beginning)
You had the hopes to make it last, it's moving fast.
And now you're realizing.
(realizing)
That in the past, the dreams you had make people feel
Like you were just reciting.
(just reciting)
Bathing in the afterglow;
A chance at luck and pride.
Where we end up we can never know.
And all I know is we seem to be
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
Fading, all these lights just turn to gray.
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
But the strange thing
Is that I don't feel a thing.
This is an act, stop holding back. The things you lost
Cannot replace what's missing.
(replace what's missing)
And from the start you played the part and now your heart's
Become a great deception.
Bathing in the afterglow;
A chance at luck and pride.
When we end up we can never know.
All I know is we seem to be
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
Fading, all these lights just turn to gray.
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
But the strange thing
Is that I don't feel a thing.
One last breath to say goodbye.
I tell myself another lie.
Stripped of all I hold so dear.
The moment's lost.
And I am sinking down lower,
I drown myself in the water.
And I am watching my life pass before my eyes,
It comes as no surprise.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you
Stop.
Changing, better to turn and walk away.
Fading, all these lights just turn to gray.
Now I'm changing, better to turn and walk away.
But the strange thing
Is that I don't feel a thing.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you stop.
You fall apart and then you
Stop.
Lyrics submitted by electricheart
Changing Lyrics as written by Matt Squire Lucas Banker
Lyrics © TUNECORE INC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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The first part is, "You fall apart each time you start to say goodbye" And its "Cannot replace what's missing (replace what's missing)"