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.
When there was another one
I couldn't clear my head for you
Now we're in that other zone
You're curling up and turning blue
Shut up bitch, now please don't cry
I was only trying to help you see
I hope you got another eye
To fill the socket left by me
Why is it so
Hard to understand why I fled?
I feel the time has
Come to forget what we have bred
Rattling my chains in despair
Knowing that you hold the key
Wish I could just grow a pair
Take what I know is good for me
Baking on your asphalt bed
Walking eggshells on your karma parole
Ain't just your face that's turning red
Now you know you have no soul
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
I feel the time has
Come to scrape yourself out of bed
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Now I'm not the only one
You're spinning in your candy web
Yeah, I think I touched the sun
Or maybe I just touched your head
Addicted to the pain that comes
From breaking myself over again
Take a breath and have some fun
One of these days you will be dead
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
If you open
Your other eye you'll see he fled
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Stillborn, searching
Under cover of the dark
Wasted and cold
I think I'll need another shot
With you I knew
It was always meant to be
How else could you
Drive me so fucking crazy?
I couldn't clear my head for you
Now we're in that other zone
You're curling up and turning blue
Shut up bitch, now please don't cry
I was only trying to help you see
I hope you got another eye
To fill the socket left by me
Why is it so
Hard to understand why I fled?
I feel the time has
Come to forget what we have bred
Rattling my chains in despair
Knowing that you hold the key
Wish I could just grow a pair
Take what I know is good for me
Baking on your asphalt bed
Walking eggshells on your karma parole
Ain't just your face that's turning red
Now you know you have no soul
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
I feel the time has
Come to scrape yourself out of bed
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Now I'm not the only one
You're spinning in your candy web
Yeah, I think I touched the sun
Or maybe I just touched your head
Addicted to the pain that comes
From breaking myself over again
Take a breath and have some fun
One of these days you will be dead
Why is it so
Hard to understand what I said?
If you open
Your other eye you'll see he fled
In a million years
I swear I'll be right here
Tied to this tree
Still waiting for your disease
Stillborn, searching
Under cover of the dark
Wasted and cold
I think I'll need another shot
With you I knew
It was always meant to be
How else could you
Drive me so fucking crazy?
Lyrics submitted by SludgeGarden13
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