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.
Oh, oh, oh
Well now this could be the last of all the rides we take
So hold on tight and don't look back
We don't care about the message
Or the rules they make
I'll find you when the sun goes black
And you only live forever in the lights you make
When we were young
We used to say
That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break
Now we are the kids from yesterday
Oh, oh
All the cameras watch the accidents and stars you hate
They only care if you can bleed
Does the television make you feel the pills you ate
Or every person that you need to be?
'Cause you only live forever in the lights you make
When we were young
We used to say
That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break
Now we are the kids from yesterday
(Yeah)
Today
Today
We are the kids from yesterday
Today
(Today) here we are (today) and we won't stop breathing
(Today) yell it out 'til your (today) heart stops beating
We are the kids from yesterday
Today
'Cause you only live forever in the lights you make
When we were young
We used to say
That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break
Now we are the kids from yesterday (oh)
We are the kids from yesterday (oh)
We are the kids from yesterday (oh)
We are the kids from yesterday (oh)
Today
Today
Well now this could be the last of all the rides we take
So hold on tight and don't look back
We don't care about the message
Or the rules they make
I'll find you when the sun goes black
And you only live forever in the lights you make
When we were young
We used to say
That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break
Now we are the kids from yesterday
Oh, oh
All the cameras watch the accidents and stars you hate
They only care if you can bleed
Does the television make you feel the pills you ate
Or every person that you need to be?
'Cause you only live forever in the lights you make
When we were young
We used to say
That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break
Now we are the kids from yesterday
(Yeah)
Today
Today
We are the kids from yesterday
Today
(Today) here we are (today) and we won't stop breathing
(Today) yell it out 'til your (today) heart stops beating
We are the kids from yesterday
Today
'Cause you only live forever in the lights you make
When we were young
We used to say
That you only hear the music when your heart begins to break
Now we are the kids from yesterday (oh)
We are the kids from yesterday (oh)
We are the kids from yesterday (oh)
We are the kids from yesterday (oh)
Today
Today
Lyrics submitted by Fayiirah, edited by SmashingDestiny
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I think it's "And you only live forever in the lights you make" not "And you want to live forever in the lights you make"
I also think this is going to be the next single. Great album overall...and I'm not an MCR fan.