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.
We're strangers!
We're playing twenty questions
We're fucking falling in love
We're fucking falling apart
Soon we're just strangers with history
I keep looking at the life around me
It's so full of you and it won't seem to leave me alone
I tried to run away, but you beat me to it
I tried to run away, but you beat me to it
I can't keep pretending that you're still the same
I'm too anxious to exist but I must say
Thanks for the last two years
I couldn't have asked for a better time
My only regret is that has to end
Tears in my eyes, tears in my mouth
I've cried more than a man should, but I think that it's okay
Forever is not something that we will ever have
We're playing twenty questions
We're fucking falling in love
We're fucking falling apart
Soon we're just strangers with history
I keep looking at the life around me
It's so full of you and it won't seem to leave me alone
I tried to run away, but you beat me to it
I tried to run away, but you beat me to it
I can't keep pretending that you're still the same
I'm too anxious to exist but I must say
Thanks for the last two years
I couldn't have asked for a better time
My only regret is that has to end
Tears in my eyes, tears in my mouth
I've cried more than a man should, but I think that it's okay
Forever is not something that we will ever have
Lyrics submitted by ticklishgio
Emo Songs Lyrics as written by J Senff
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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Such a great song, basically explains a beggining of a relationship and the end of it
suck it up baby boy!!! haha. it's a make me reference. the band make me. really good twinkly screamo band.