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 don't have to leave anymore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here
Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave
Where would I be
If this were to go under
That's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
As if a choice I'd make
And I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
And I am yours now (I am yours now)
So now I don't ever have to leave (ever have to leave)
I've been found out (I've been found out)
So now I'll never explore
So now I'll never explore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here
Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look
I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave
Where would I be
If this were to go under
That's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
As if a choice I'd make
And I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore
And I am yours now (I am yours now)
So now I don't ever have to leave (ever have to leave)
I've been found out (I've been found out)
So now I'll never explore
So now I'll never explore
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I think many people have it right, really. But there's too much everyones leaving out.
"Islands and cities I have looked Here I saw Something I couldn't over look"
She was out searching for her love, while she was she had an empiphany of sorts, that he was where she wanted him to be all along.
"I've been found out So now I'll never explore"
She was with someone, she was exploring and who's to say she didn't actually find someone there? She's been found out by the other man that her love wasn't in his heart, but in the heart of another.
"Where would I be If this were to go under That's a risk I'd take"
She gave up the other man and now she's wondering. Because she has nothing left but him and that love. The video really gives a different perspective. Everyone's together but by the end only she's standing there in a reign of fire. It really lends itself to the story. Because it doesn't sound happy. It's bittersweet and it aches longingly in your chest. Just my interpreation because I get too deep like that :D