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.
Somewhere we go to kill a while
A moment continuing for miles
Stars lay overhead your everywhere
Don't need anything as much
So shed on a thread stranded in air
When you get to far to touch
I'm a a ship sailing
And the seas are rough
I'm a satellite
In the space above
When I'm holding here
Or I'm hanging up
I'm in suspension
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension)
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension) close enough
You're not
Then comes the sun the
Solar flare
In the suspension
You can find me there
Lift my spirit high when you come here
Enemy and the heal
This sky feeling I get when you're near
Give it gravity to feel
I'm a ship sailing
And the seas are rough
I'm a satellite
In the space above
When I'm holding here
Or I'm hanging up
In the suspension
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension)
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension) close enough
You're not
(Suspension, suspension)
I'm ship sailing
And the seas are rough
I'm a satellite
In the space above
And I'm holding here
Or I'm hanging up
In the suspension
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension)
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension) close enough
You're not
A moment continuing for miles
Stars lay overhead your everywhere
Don't need anything as much
So shed on a thread stranded in air
When you get to far to touch
I'm a a ship sailing
And the seas are rough
I'm a satellite
In the space above
When I'm holding here
Or I'm hanging up
I'm in suspension
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension)
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension) close enough
You're not
Then comes the sun the
Solar flare
In the suspension
You can find me there
Lift my spirit high when you come here
Enemy and the heal
This sky feeling I get when you're near
Give it gravity to feel
I'm a ship sailing
And the seas are rough
I'm a satellite
In the space above
When I'm holding here
Or I'm hanging up
In the suspension
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension)
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension) close enough
You're not
(Suspension, suspension)
I'm ship sailing
And the seas are rough
I'm a satellite
In the space above
And I'm holding here
Or I'm hanging up
In the suspension
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension)
You're not close enough
You're not close enough
You're not (suspension) close enough
You're not
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Suspension Lyrics as written by Valerie Poxleitner Thomas Salter
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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When I saw Lights at the Hop Farm festival she said that the key lyrics in this song are: you're not close enough. It's about being far away from someone you love dearly and in Lights' case she is referring to her husband, Beau Bokan.