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.
Hey girls, hey boys
No don't mind the noise
It's just the sound of being dragged to hell
It's just a pornographic adulation ship
As we watch the spider's web eat itself
Oh there's ?
Thing we share
All that we've ever known
Turn your touch keys off
And start harvesting
We see if they jump
Very soon
It's got me singin'
Blues that hit you like a cannonball
Loud enough to break your bones
But it was written in blood
Before they wrote it in stone
So sing it with me
Like it's your own
It's got me fucked up and dried up
And fed up to get up
And bleeding and crying
Like I'm mad at the song
I'm a carbon copy
Now they get me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
It's got you strung out and bothered
And caught up and drownin'
And failin' and shot up
And feelin' you gotta run
You're a carbon copy
Now they get me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
You're gettin' backwards stayin' low luck
On the "four hundred blows"
Makes you feel like you're all by yourself
So when the chance comes along
Where you could help right a wrong
The bullshit's got you stuck up on the shelf
But it's heavy
I'm not ready
Do you feel like you're swimming in the moat?
Well baby follow the sound
That's shootin' our of your crown
There's only one way up from the floor
It's got me fucked up and dried up
And fed up can't get up
And bleeding and crying
Like I'm mad at the song
I'm a carbon copy
Now they got me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
It's got you strung out and bothered
And caught up and drownin'
And failin' and shot up
And feelin' you gotta run
You're a carbon copy
Now they got me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
Now, gonna tiptoe
Gonna run right forward
No, not the first time
We've been run like dogs
Oh, feel the flat bed
In the foreign ward
Oh raise your fist up
Brush the dust off
Boy it's got, got,
It's got me singing
Blues that hit you like a cannonball
Loud enough to break your bones
But it was written in blood
Before they wrote it in stone
So sing it with me
Like it's your own
Those blues that hit you like a cannonball
Loud enough to break your bones
But with the rising in love
Before we take in the song
So sing it with me
Like it's your own
Baby zip up and get up
Get ready to push up
Hey baby get ready 'cause
Yeah yeah it's gonna come
If we want to see what's possible for her
Won't move away right now
You better dust off and get up
Get ready to push up
Hey baby get ready 'cause
Yeah yeah it's gonna come
When the truth is spoken
Love's a workin'
Nothing's gonna weigh us down
No don't mind the noise
It's just the sound of being dragged to hell
It's just a pornographic adulation ship
As we watch the spider's web eat itself
Oh there's ?
Thing we share
All that we've ever known
Turn your touch keys off
And start harvesting
We see if they jump
Very soon
It's got me singin'
Blues that hit you like a cannonball
Loud enough to break your bones
But it was written in blood
Before they wrote it in stone
So sing it with me
Like it's your own
It's got me fucked up and dried up
And fed up to get up
And bleeding and crying
Like I'm mad at the song
I'm a carbon copy
Now they get me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
It's got you strung out and bothered
And caught up and drownin'
And failin' and shot up
And feelin' you gotta run
You're a carbon copy
Now they get me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
You're gettin' backwards stayin' low luck
On the "four hundred blows"
Makes you feel like you're all by yourself
So when the chance comes along
Where you could help right a wrong
The bullshit's got you stuck up on the shelf
But it's heavy
I'm not ready
Do you feel like you're swimming in the moat?
Well baby follow the sound
That's shootin' our of your crown
There's only one way up from the floor
It's got me fucked up and dried up
And fed up can't get up
And bleeding and crying
Like I'm mad at the song
I'm a carbon copy
Now they got me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
It's got you strung out and bothered
And caught up and drownin'
And failin' and shot up
And feelin' you gotta run
You're a carbon copy
Now they got me
Uh, I don't get where we're going
Now, gonna tiptoe
Gonna run right forward
No, not the first time
We've been run like dogs
Oh, feel the flat bed
In the foreign ward
Oh raise your fist up
Brush the dust off
Boy it's got, got,
It's got me singing
Blues that hit you like a cannonball
Loud enough to break your bones
But it was written in blood
Before they wrote it in stone
So sing it with me
Like it's your own
Those blues that hit you like a cannonball
Loud enough to break your bones
But with the rising in love
Before we take in the song
So sing it with me
Like it's your own
Baby zip up and get up
Get ready to push up
Hey baby get ready 'cause
Yeah yeah it's gonna come
If we want to see what's possible for her
Won't move away right now
You better dust off and get up
Get ready to push up
Hey baby get ready 'cause
Yeah yeah it's gonna come
When the truth is spoken
Love's a workin'
Nothing's gonna weigh us down
Lyrics submitted by lwholl01, edited by mercmcguirk, Lyssavirus
New Cannonball Blues Lyrics as written by David Andrew Sitek Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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hey girls, hey boys no don't mind the noise it's just the sound of being dragged ahead...
and for the part you have ? at:
...all this death above extinguishing all that we've ever known turn your touch screens off and start harvesting the seeds that your parents sowed...