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.
Behind shaky worship heaves a bitter moon
Mother wit and street smarts bloom
Things fall apart the center cannot hold
Women on rockets and the men all follow
There might not a file but they're keeping tabs on you
Oil on water and the turd in the Louvre
Turncoats smile and then they grieve
They dig your grave shallow so you can breathe
Into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
The yellow sun will someday smolder red
Cords and cables, steel and concrete lie useless and dead
No worms and blood, bones and hair
A paste less shell powders into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
Mother wit and street smarts bloom
Things fall apart the center cannot hold
Women on rockets and the men all follow
There might not a file but they're keeping tabs on you
Oil on water and the turd in the Louvre
Turncoats smile and then they grieve
They dig your grave shallow so you can breathe
Into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
The yellow sun will someday smolder red
Cords and cables, steel and concrete lie useless and dead
No worms and blood, bones and hair
A paste less shell powders into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
Into thin air
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Into Thin Air Lyrics as written by Noah Levy Adam L. Levy
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