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.
chocolate makes you happy
and it keeps you awake
as you unbutton
your top pants button
bewildered by the pain oh oh oh
chocolate makes you happy
as you deign to sing along
when you thrust two fingers
down your throat and
wash away what's wrong
oh oh oh
out of your mind with happiness
incredibly dumb, incredibly ugly
to have die the one you await for
all that you sign all that you sign
and wait for
out of your mind with whorishness
incredibly young, incredibly filthy
oh to curse both your life and death
oh to curse life, oh to curse life
and death!
chocolate makes you happy
and it keeps you awake
as you unbutton
your top pants button
bewildered by the pain oh oh oh
chocolate makes you happy
like a credit to the race
as you ruminate in the arms of coco
on the fatness of your face
out of you mind with slavishness
rough close and cold
rough close and cold
to have die that one you await for
all that you sign, blush, wish and pray for
out of you mind embarrassment
out of you mind
out of your mind
out of your mind out of
chocolate makes you happy
and it keeps you awake
as you unbutton
your elaborate garter
bewildered by desire
and it keeps you awake
as you unbutton
your top pants button
bewildered by the pain oh oh oh
chocolate makes you happy
as you deign to sing along
when you thrust two fingers
down your throat and
wash away what's wrong
oh oh oh
out of your mind with happiness
incredibly dumb, incredibly ugly
to have die the one you await for
all that you sign all that you sign
and wait for
out of your mind with whorishness
incredibly young, incredibly filthy
oh to curse both your life and death
oh to curse life, oh to curse life
and death!
chocolate makes you happy
and it keeps you awake
as you unbutton
your top pants button
bewildered by the pain oh oh oh
chocolate makes you happy
like a credit to the race
as you ruminate in the arms of coco
on the fatness of your face
out of you mind with slavishness
rough close and cold
rough close and cold
to have die that one you await for
all that you sign, blush, wish and pray for
out of you mind embarrassment
out of you mind
out of your mind
out of your mind out of
chocolate makes you happy
and it keeps you awake
as you unbutton
your elaborate garter
bewildered by desire
Lyrics submitted by Coow
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I think this is about purging.
yup. pretty obviously about self-hate and purging. <br /> "out of your mind" oh so true<br /> <br /> and then whoring yourself out.
Are you sure?