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.
Standing, on the edge of forever
At the start of whatever
Shouting love at the world
Back then, we were like cavemen
But we map the moon and the stars
Then we forgave them
We will meet you where the lights are
The defenders, of the faith we are
Where the thunder turns around
They'll run so hard we'll tear the ground away
You know no one dies
In these love drowned eyes
Through our love drowned eyes
We'll watch you sleep tonight
Although no one understood
We were holding back the flood
Learning how to dance the rain
We were holding back the flood
They said we'd never dance again
Bleeding, but none of us leaving
Watch your mouth son or you'll find yourself floating home
Here we come now on a dark star
Seeing demons, not what we are
Tiny minds and eager hands
Will try to strike but now will end today
There's progress now where there once was none
Where there once was none, then everything came along
Although no one understood
We were holding back the flood learning how to dance the rain
There was more of them than us now they'll never dance again
Although no one understood
There was more of them than us learning how to dance the rain
We were holding back the flood they said we'd never dance again
We will meet you where the lights are
The defenders, of the faith we are
Where the thunder turns around
They'll run so hard we'll tear the ground away
Although no one understood
There was more of them than us learning how to dance the rain
(learning how to dance the rain)
There was more of them than us now they'll never dance again
Now we'll never dance again
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
At the start of whatever
Shouting love at the world
Back then, we were like cavemen
But we map the moon and the stars
Then we forgave them
We will meet you where the lights are
The defenders, of the faith we are
Where the thunder turns around
They'll run so hard we'll tear the ground away
You know no one dies
In these love drowned eyes
Through our love drowned eyes
We'll watch you sleep tonight
Although no one understood
We were holding back the flood
Learning how to dance the rain
We were holding back the flood
They said we'd never dance again
Bleeding, but none of us leaving
Watch your mouth son or you'll find yourself floating home
Here we come now on a dark star
Seeing demons, not what we are
Tiny minds and eager hands
Will try to strike but now will end today
There's progress now where there once was none
Where there once was none, then everything came along
Although no one understood
We were holding back the flood learning how to dance the rain
There was more of them than us now they'll never dance again
Although no one understood
There was more of them than us learning how to dance the rain
We were holding back the flood they said we'd never dance again
We will meet you where the lights are
The defenders, of the faith we are
Where the thunder turns around
They'll run so hard we'll tear the ground away
Although no one understood
There was more of them than us learning how to dance the rain
(learning how to dance the rain)
There was more of them than us now they'll never dance again
Now we'll never dance again
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Oh ah
Lyrics submitted by Steveweiser
The Flood Lyrics as written by Robert Peter Williams Mark Anthony Owen
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Hello, everybody!
Maybe I'll sound a bit crazy but what if the song is about ANGELS? Please don't laugh, just try to read the lyrics one more time accepting what I've said - it will make sense!
Angels talking to humans via the song? Lovely :)