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.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
But the fight and the dog!
Let's surprise and take a ?
And if you get a knife from behind there,
? any funny!
Do it, do it!
I won't say a word till I ? in your shoes...
Very nice new shoes!
Do it, do it!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
Keep going!
Fall down five times,
Rise up six!
Keep the good news,
By all means,
The main streets are in a fight to win
This is right and both sides win!
Yeah! What's the name
Round the ring around your finger
And build the ring around to bring it, bring it!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
Keep going!
If you can't join them, beat them!
If you want, ? be friends!
The joy of the fight is the fight and the boy
I'm making this up now finding a point.
Is he even comprende,
? is the fun of the thing,
I can't resist anything,
For temptation ?
I'm finding myself!
In here is only ordinary,
Is the hero among the ordinarily.
You have nothing to lose but your chains,
So we might ?
And yet might be ?
Or a ?
Do it!
Do it!
At the end of the tunnel, there is always light,
It just might be a train.
Is it?
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
Keep going!
But the fight and the dog!
Let's surprise and take a ?
And if you get a knife from behind there,
? any funny!
Do it, do it!
I won't say a word till I ? in your shoes...
Very nice new shoes!
Do it, do it!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
Keep going!
Fall down five times,
Rise up six!
Keep the good news,
By all means,
The main streets are in a fight to win
This is right and both sides win!
Yeah! What's the name
Round the ring around your finger
And build the ring around to bring it, bring it!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
Keep going!
If you can't join them, beat them!
If you want, ? be friends!
The joy of the fight is the fight and the boy
I'm making this up now finding a point.
Is he even comprende,
? is the fun of the thing,
I can't resist anything,
For temptation ?
I'm finding myself!
In here is only ordinary,
Is the hero among the ordinarily.
You have nothing to lose but your chains,
So we might ?
And yet might be ?
Or a ?
Do it!
Do it!
At the end of the tunnel, there is always light,
It just might be a train.
Is it?
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
If you're going through hell!
Keep going!
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Dang, another song missing many words yet it got posted!? Who do I have to sleep with on this site to get Big Mama Thornton's BIG MAMA posted! Second thought, if I promise I won't sleep with the staff just maybe they'll post what I have (the lyrics, that is:) As for this song, NO CLUE what it means. Possibly a 'keep your chin' up song, although the "comedy" escapes simple me...