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.
yeah... and if it's a wall, then you should cast a shadow.
or maybe possibly, it's a thought you think is true,
when you appear to be: belief, belief.
I never loved a wall so much.
hey yeah...
asleep in a chair,
where the two go click.
Look at the floor, flat pattern order.
oh, it's the great power one receives from a very modest source,
oh, and you don't feel a thing,
when you drink from the springs of living water.
or maybe possibly, it's a thought you think is true,
when you appear to be: belief, belief.
I never loved a wall so much.
hey yeah...
asleep in a chair,
where the two go click.
Look at the floor, flat pattern order.
oh, it's the great power one receives from a very modest source,
oh, and you don't feel a thing,
when you drink from the springs of living water.
Lyrics submitted by likewater
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Whoops, sorry for the double post back there.
I don't hear "so it is" either, but given their usual attention to detail, I'd be more surprised that they'd have such a glaring error in the notes, than if the "so it is" was just extremely quiet/subtle or something. It would also provide some nice foreshadowing to the end of Group Autogenics II ("and so it is, and so it is").