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.
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
Lifestyles of the young and the reckless
Checked in the real world that don't ask questions
Dodging on bullets like a fucked up western
Dragged you on a rope til you're choked out senseless
Kings or crown we're the best around
Got an underground army yeah we holding it down
We built our base and what we found
It takes blood and sweat and always moving the crowd
No skill then you're going the fast way
Let me see you dance on from the AK
Bullshit now he's dropping names,
Who you know, what you doing all sounds the same
A piece of advice quit dropping mine
You're be done way before it even it is your time
Like a stripper in a cage making minimum wage
You're be done like a dollar bill hitting the stage
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
I'm gonna wake your ass up 'cause you ain't got what it takes
You crews ridin' my nuts so tell you how my dick tastes
Yeah I'm shit faced and all black looking creepy
It's Charlie Scene this shit is way too easy
I'm gonna give it to you quick going straight to your throat
Put the burner in your mouth and turn you in to a ghost
All these people making music with nothing to show
Who doesn't have a band? Shit I don't know
What kind of sane person drops his own name
What kind of sane person boos his own band off stage
What kind of sane person drops a verse like this
Damn this ain't working I'm just too damn sick
Just you coming out here has gotten me provoked
I'm gonna cut your ass up like a line of coke
I'm gonna roll your crew up like a fat ass roach
Put you in my ashtray 'cause you just got smoked
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
Another classic case you crash and burn
And it's true you're dead now
It's light out, your last song
The world has turned it's face you'll never find
And it's true you're dead now
It's light out, your last song
Walls are closing in, their falling down
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
You're talking too loud
Who the fuck are you now?
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
Lifestyles of the young and the reckless
Checked in the real world that don't ask questions
Dodging on bullets like a fucked up western
Dragged you on a rope til you're choked out senseless
Kings or crown we're the best around
Got an underground army yeah we holding it down
We built our base and what we found
It takes blood and sweat and always moving the crowd
No skill then you're going the fast way
Let me see you dance on from the AK
Bullshit now he's dropping names,
Who you know, what you doing all sounds the same
A piece of advice quit dropping mine
You're be done way before it even it is your time
Like a stripper in a cage making minimum wage
You're be done like a dollar bill hitting the stage
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
I'm gonna wake your ass up 'cause you ain't got what it takes
You crews ridin' my nuts so tell you how my dick tastes
Yeah I'm shit faced and all black looking creepy
It's Charlie Scene this shit is way too easy
I'm gonna give it to you quick going straight to your throat
Put the burner in your mouth and turn you in to a ghost
All these people making music with nothing to show
Who doesn't have a band? Shit I don't know
What kind of sane person drops his own name
What kind of sane person boos his own band off stage
What kind of sane person drops a verse like this
Damn this ain't working I'm just too damn sick
Just you coming out here has gotten me provoked
I'm gonna cut your ass up like a line of coke
I'm gonna roll your crew up like a fat ass roach
Put you in my ashtray 'cause you just got smoked
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
Another classic case you crash and burn
And it's true you're dead now
It's light out, your last song
The world has turned it's face you'll never find
And it's true you're dead now
It's light out, your last song
Walls are closing in, their falling down
Lights out
You're talking too loud
So just shut your mouth
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Can you feel it now?
We're calling you out
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
You're talking too loud
Who the fuck are you now?
Who the fuck are you now?
Lights out
Lyrics submitted by Skorponok, edited by MonsterKhaos
Lights Out Lyrics as written by Daniel Murillo Ben B. Grosse
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is obviously about Deuce. But I really think it needed to be written. Has anyone ever heard the song 'When we ride' by Deuce. That's some fucked up shit. He straight up calls them out in his song. At least Hollywood didn't make it totally obvious that this song is about him. Great song by the way.