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.
Don't Think.
Don't speak.
I will do this for you.
Every natural thought
Or feeling you've ever had will change tonight.
Don't think.
Don't speak.
I will do this for you.
Trust the pedestal,
For now we become a higher being.
I am your new mind.
I am your new you.
I am your new sin.
I am your new lust.
I am for you now.
Control, and collapse, collide.
A letter plagued by a twisted word, slave.
You will become mine, for there are no more options.
There will not be a sweet consolation, this is what is supposed to happen.
A predetermined destiny put in motion by my stronger power.
You are me.
I sit on this dirty floor.
A week mind for a cause.
A cause I do not know.
Don't know what to live for.
A compliment I've never heard.
A comfort I've never felt, it's here,
Even though it won't last for long.
Sit down.
Stand up please.
Lay down, drink this please.
You'll be in peace soon.
A tribe within itself
A vision will display
To blind the caring.
Too late
I am a cult by definition.
I am friend by first impression.
My task: to recycle this earth.
To not repeat human history
Start from scratch, rid every sound.
Deconstruct, deconstruct all.
Ive bid every method into the hands of my employees.
(I am a cult by definition.
I am a scientist by default)
I have saved you.
Now you will follow my journey, my destiny.
Tonight's your death.
Resurrect my new you.
I am a cult by definition.
I will end this human world.
This is shit and I have proved this with my followers.
Fuck humanity, end life.
You are now dead, and I soon will be
Don't speak.
I will do this for you.
Every natural thought
Or feeling you've ever had will change tonight.
Don't think.
Don't speak.
I will do this for you.
Trust the pedestal,
For now we become a higher being.
I am your new mind.
I am your new you.
I am your new sin.
I am your new lust.
I am for you now.
Control, and collapse, collide.
A letter plagued by a twisted word, slave.
You will become mine, for there are no more options.
There will not be a sweet consolation, this is what is supposed to happen.
A predetermined destiny put in motion by my stronger power.
You are me.
I sit on this dirty floor.
A week mind for a cause.
A cause I do not know.
Don't know what to live for.
A compliment I've never heard.
A comfort I've never felt, it's here,
Even though it won't last for long.
Sit down.
Stand up please.
Lay down, drink this please.
You'll be in peace soon.
A tribe within itself
A vision will display
To blind the caring.
Too late
I am a cult by definition.
I am friend by first impression.
My task: to recycle this earth.
To not repeat human history
Start from scratch, rid every sound.
Deconstruct, deconstruct all.
Ive bid every method into the hands of my employees.
(I am a cult by definition.
I am a scientist by default)
I have saved you.
Now you will follow my journey, my destiny.
Tonight's your death.
Resurrect my new you.
I am a cult by definition.
I will end this human world.
This is shit and I have proved this with my followers.
Fuck humanity, end life.
You are now dead, and I soon will be
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reversed lyrics?
they're layered during the soft interlude, i don't think reversed?