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.
They know what everybody knows
Better sit, a letter from a thief says
I lead when everybody sleeps
So feel the ways to cover up the old wounds
Lost in a finger frosted lie
These sensors medicating through it all.
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
Faceless, so little there to judge
Left wing, let's separate the cold out
Opposites, we never need to tell
One's thing, I found I'm having to
I'm having to
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Solitude
Waste of a man
This fades as soon as the sun sets
I know all these fade or all that lives
Imagine here's a better feel
Told to dissolve or choose to fade
Or stay here
You'll live
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
Better sit, a letter from a thief says
I lead when everybody sleeps
So feel the ways to cover up the old wounds
Lost in a finger frosted lie
These sensors medicating through it all.
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
Faceless, so little there to judge
Left wing, let's separate the cold out
Opposites, we never need to tell
One's thing, I found I'm having to
I'm having to
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Solitude
Waste of a man
This fades as soon as the sun sets
I know all these fade or all that lives
Imagine here's a better feel
Told to dissolve or choose to fade
Or stay here
You'll live
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
If you ever enter my mind
Stay there, you'll live
To fend it off and fool them all
Stay there
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This song is deff about Obama. Think about it people...