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.
Are you falling through?
Are you falling through?
Don't let it leak out now
You've got to make it through
The photos in your hands
In your fox holed youth
It's not different now
Then it'll ever be
You've got to trust me
You've got to trust me
Don't you worry ‘bout us losing everyone
Cousin Rachel and we'll go out on a pond
We'll get stuck in the middle of it all with an old pontoon
I don't think I have enough batteries
Tell my dad that I died
It won’t be long
Till we'll all go back
To our open locks
And our biggest cities
To our open locks
And our biggest cities
(It won't be long)
Are you falling through?
Don't let it leak out now
You've got to make it through
The photos in your hands
In your fox holed youth
It's not different now
Then it'll ever be
You've got to trust me
You've got to trust me
Don't you worry ‘bout us losing everyone
Cousin Rachel and we'll go out on a pond
We'll get stuck in the middle of it all with an old pontoon
I don't think I have enough batteries
Tell my dad that I died
It won’t be long
Till we'll all go back
To our open locks
And our biggest cities
To our open locks
And our biggest cities
(It won't be long)
Lyrics submitted by Lucanio
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Could someone send me a link to this song?