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.
T'was the night before Christmas, and all through the house
Everybody was stoned, even the mouse
Man from the whore house and me from the jail
I just settled down to get a piece of her tail
When all of a sudden I heard such a clatter
I tripped on my dick and busted my bladder!
I went downstairs and what did I see?
A fat little red faggot hanging from a tree
He stuffed the stockings with reefers and beer
And a big fat hairy dick for the family queer
That's the end of my story - funny wasn't it, you see?
She didn't even . . .
She didn't see my thing behind you, leave you for this private eye
I was there to give them near to my, zima zima mommy fah
I'm going to say this, hope it don't offend you, came to the grizma
Give them a taste of me, give them a little excitement to the damn monkey
Your monkey can stay with me
Ahhh
Ahhh
Ahhh
Chevy took my brain, same old motherfucker sucked my dick that day
He will never zima zima, never, never, not that day
I'm really sick of all this excitement, yeah
But he thinks he's better than me, uma zooma nooga dunga
You can suck my dick all day, one, two, three, four
Santa can suck my dick all day
Everybody was stoned, even the mouse
Man from the whore house and me from the jail
I just settled down to get a piece of her tail
When all of a sudden I heard such a clatter
I tripped on my dick and busted my bladder!
I went downstairs and what did I see?
A fat little red faggot hanging from a tree
He stuffed the stockings with reefers and beer
And a big fat hairy dick for the family queer
That's the end of my story - funny wasn't it, you see?
She didn't even . . .
She didn't see my thing behind you, leave you for this private eye
I was there to give them near to my, zima zima mommy fah
I'm going to say this, hope it don't offend you, came to the grizma
Give them a taste of me, give them a little excitement to the damn monkey
Your monkey can stay with me
Ahhh
Ahhh
Ahhh
Chevy took my brain, same old motherfucker sucked my dick that day
He will never zima zima, never, never, not that day
I'm really sick of all this excitement, yeah
But he thinks he's better than me, uma zooma nooga dunga
You can suck my dick all day, one, two, three, four
Santa can suck my dick all day
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