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.
If you live in this shit world and can survive
Fuck off, shut up and take care about your life
Questions, faiths, thoughts
Are not worthy with no attitude
Scared for the circumstances
Living and accepting the consequences
I don't care for mercy
I follow my nose, according to my soul
The challenges make my blood flows
The hypocrisy makes me thirsty for cure
I seek for no revolution
I seek for the revolution
Who I am to cross your war?
Who are you to cross mine?
Is your battle merciless?
Mine is worse
"I know you are fearful bastard
Scared of my brutal reality
I never beg for mercy
Like a soulless coward like you
I know you got afraid when I move
I shall bring the doom of your faith
In my battlefield will meet your decay
Sentenced to taste my pain
The end of your days is here
Fuck off, shut up and take care about your life
Questions, faiths, thoughts
Are not worthy with no attitude
Scared for the circumstances
Living and accepting the consequences
I don't care for mercy
I follow my nose, according to my soul
The challenges make my blood flows
The hypocrisy makes me thirsty for cure
I seek for no revolution
I seek for the revolution
Who I am to cross your war?
Who are you to cross mine?
Is your battle merciless?
Mine is worse
"I know you are fearful bastard
Scared of my brutal reality
I never beg for mercy
Like a soulless coward like you
I know you got afraid when I move
I shall bring the doom of your faith
In my battlefield will meet your decay
Sentenced to taste my pain
The end of your days is here
Lyrics submitted by sepultura1987
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