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.
step away...
porno chicks moving eyes and pressing tits against the screen
porno chicks grabbing their fingers with those things inside their jeans
porno chicks posing for the cameras with their eyes all full of fire
porno chicks getting to the bottom where skill might kill my desire
sex flex not yet so wet chug chug not love
beyond the yet so-called
we'll deepen the feud around the world
stiffen the (soft) slide up your nose
just use the girls yeah just like the lord
why? i'm cumming i'm cumming i'm cumming
no more they've taken what i got
nice the blind eon nibble the truth that makes the world
inside the pain it looks around its not a game
it looks into mental restraints
it seems like its all a lie i feel like i'm about to die
and now i'm looking deep inside
and now it may keep me alive
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
eye candy
what would make the world a better place for you and i?
freak speaks the meek inside the door where things have never grown before
into the depths of your intestines and messes infected
inject some love into the wildest thing i know
and now its sweating hard to grow
but everything that i will know shedding your pretend
he's sinking the world he's speaking in noise and noise and noise sinking in noise
eye candy
what will make the world a better place for you and i?
christ is not the animal of truth that makes the world inside the pain
it looks around decide again
it looks into the color safe
it seems like it is all alive
i feel like i'm about to die
and now i'm looking deep inside
and now it may keep me alive
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
eye candy
what will make the world a better place for you and i?
porno chicks moving eyes and pressing tits against the screen
porno chicks grabbing their fingers with those things inside their jeans
porno chicks posing for the cameras with their eyes all full of fire
porno chicks getting to the bottom where skill might kill my desire
sex flex not yet so wet chug chug not love
beyond the yet so-called
we'll deepen the feud around the world
stiffen the (soft) slide up your nose
just use the girls yeah just like the lord
why? i'm cumming i'm cumming i'm cumming
no more they've taken what i got
nice the blind eon nibble the truth that makes the world
inside the pain it looks around its not a game
it looks into mental restraints
it seems like its all a lie i feel like i'm about to die
and now i'm looking deep inside
and now it may keep me alive
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
eye candy
what would make the world a better place for you and i?
freak speaks the meek inside the door where things have never grown before
into the depths of your intestines and messes infected
inject some love into the wildest thing i know
and now its sweating hard to grow
but everything that i will know shedding your pretend
he's sinking the world he's speaking in noise and noise and noise sinking in noise
eye candy
what will make the world a better place for you and i?
christ is not the animal of truth that makes the world inside the pain
it looks around decide again
it looks into the color safe
it seems like it is all alive
i feel like i'm about to die
and now i'm looking deep inside
and now it may keep me alive
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
eye candy
what will make the world a better place for you and i?
Lyrics submitted by gothic_hobbit
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