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.
Shut me up with your long tubesocks
They don't scream, "Hey, let's just be friends"
Look at both my inkwells brimming
I was much less understanding then
How many stars you think you possess
How many in your butterfly net
Build me a star in your forehead
You were so misunderstood back then
But I think I get you now
I think I get you now
This is me starring
In a stranger's nightmare
Ooo-weeeee
Don't let the bathwater get too high
You will be a flood of porcelain
The lines clawed on the inside
It's digging hard into your tiles
And we're going to flood this house
We're going to flood this house
This is me starring
In a stranger's nightmare
They don't scream, "Hey, let's just be friends"
Look at both my inkwells brimming
I was much less understanding then
How many stars you think you possess
How many in your butterfly net
Build me a star in your forehead
You were so misunderstood back then
But I think I get you now
I think I get you now
This is me starring
In a stranger's nightmare
Ooo-weeeee
Don't let the bathwater get too high
You will be a flood of porcelain
The lines clawed on the inside
It's digging hard into your tiles
And we're going to flood this house
We're going to flood this house
This is me starring
In a stranger's nightmare
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i don't know how i found this, but i'm so glad i did. obsessed.
to star in someone else's nightmare.. i dunno the song seems to be about looking back/considering where you are now..