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.
Just yesterday you slipped
Away from me
Without so much
As one word of good-bye
You packed the sunshine
In your big old suitcase
Now only the rain fills the sky
You were mine
But suddenly it's changed
Wish that I could find a way
To stop the rain
I thought that everything
Was going fine
But I was blind
Blind as a man could be
I took for granted
What you tried hard to give
And now the rain
Is all I can see
You were mine
But that was yesterday
Wish that I could find a way
To stop the rain
Now tell me please
Do you understand
What this feeling
Is all about
'Cos when you left me
You took my heart
Squeezed the sunshine out
But in time
This heart of mine will heal
The Sun will shine
And I can find a way to stop the rain
Away from me
Without so much
As one word of good-bye
You packed the sunshine
In your big old suitcase
Now only the rain fills the sky
You were mine
But suddenly it's changed
Wish that I could find a way
To stop the rain
I thought that everything
Was going fine
But I was blind
Blind as a man could be
I took for granted
What you tried hard to give
And now the rain
Is all I can see
You were mine
But that was yesterday
Wish that I could find a way
To stop the rain
Now tell me please
Do you understand
What this feeling
Is all about
'Cos when you left me
You took my heart
Squeezed the sunshine out
But in time
This heart of mine will heal
The Sun will shine
And I can find a way to stop the rain
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Stop the Rain Lyrics as written by Hamish Stuart Alan Edward Gorrie
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