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.
[C Murder]
Motherfuckers always wonderin why this nigga winding up dead.
Why is this nigga dead.
It's because motherfuckers out here is stupid.
They giving to it some motherfuckin body.
They cross a nigga.
And they don't watch their motherfuckin back.
Niggas gonna retaliate.
You can't cross a nigga without gettin it.
Cause a motherfucker realize that.
I ain't runnin.
Chorus
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and we strapped
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and they gunnin
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and we riders
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and we strapped
I got beef with some niggas on the other side
Them fools cross me, now somebody gotta die
I got the twins in the lex with the black tint
I told em bust if you see a motherfucker flinch
I guess them busters want to see if the tank real
They wasn't satisfied when they homie got killed
I ain't banging on no motherfucking tape nigga
Test me and I'm gonna celebrate your dead day
I can't sleep when my enemy is looking for me
I'm paranoid niggas tryin to take my soul from me
But I ain't runnin I'm a look em dead in the eye
I'm a real nigga and real niggas don't die
Chorus
[Kane & Abel]
Hot lead at your head at the speed of light
can't outrun a bullet, you goin die tonight
It ain't right but that's the way its gotta be
The circumstance is the murderman dance
Me and my brother made the world pitch black ready for combat
Automatic gats for weed packs stay strapped
Playa some niggas came but everybody ain't able
Dick hard starin at a hundred G's on the kitchen table
They say my status turn to casualties when i squeeze
Hit em up with two two threes, bodies scatter like the breeze
Fatal injuries, i feel sorry for your mother
But i got this motherfucker fore he got me get em
[C-Murder]
Chorus
Motherfuckers always wonderin why this nigga winding up dead.
Why is this nigga dead.
It's because motherfuckers out here is stupid.
They giving to it some motherfuckin body.
They cross a nigga.
And they don't watch their motherfuckin back.
Niggas gonna retaliate.
You can't cross a nigga without gettin it.
Cause a motherfucker realize that.
I ain't runnin.
Chorus
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and we strapped
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and they gunnin
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and we riders
I gotta get em fore they get me, I ain't runnin
I got my TRU niggas with me and we strapped
I got beef with some niggas on the other side
Them fools cross me, now somebody gotta die
I got the twins in the lex with the black tint
I told em bust if you see a motherfucker flinch
I guess them busters want to see if the tank real
They wasn't satisfied when they homie got killed
I ain't banging on no motherfucking tape nigga
Test me and I'm gonna celebrate your dead day
I can't sleep when my enemy is looking for me
I'm paranoid niggas tryin to take my soul from me
But I ain't runnin I'm a look em dead in the eye
I'm a real nigga and real niggas don't die
Chorus
[Kane & Abel]
Hot lead at your head at the speed of light
can't outrun a bullet, you goin die tonight
It ain't right but that's the way its gotta be
The circumstance is the murderman dance
Me and my brother made the world pitch black ready for combat
Automatic gats for weed packs stay strapped
Playa some niggas came but everybody ain't able
Dick hard starin at a hundred G's on the kitchen table
They say my status turn to casualties when i squeeze
Hit em up with two two threes, bodies scatter like the breeze
Fatal injuries, i feel sorry for your mother
But i got this motherfucker fore he got me get em
[C-Murder]
Chorus
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