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.
Finale hour you will pay, for your love to mystics
Trembling, you kiss, your carved crucifix
This day will witness my unholy death
I smell the whispering angel's breath
Cold, feel, numb
Lord, where are thou
Blinded by the visions, why have thy come
Floating in the twilight of life and death
The unknown is rising and your faith starts to break
Denying you cry, for your salvation
This night will witness my spirit float
Oh yes, I have kissed the goat
Death, has won
God, begone
Float, levitized spirit, leave the corpse's bed
Sense, vaguely, grave clothes
In shreds haunted
I wish I'd never come here
The dead should be left in peace
Trembling, you kiss, your carved crucifix
This day will witness my unholy death
I smell the whispering angel's breath
Cold, feel, numb
Lord, where are thou
Blinded by the visions, why have thy come
Floating in the twilight of life and death
The unknown is rising and your faith starts to break
Denying you cry, for your salvation
This night will witness my spirit float
Oh yes, I have kissed the goat
Death, has won
God, begone
Float, levitized spirit, leave the corpse's bed
Sense, vaguely, grave clothes
In shreds haunted
I wish I'd never come here
The dead should be left in peace
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Haunted Lyrics as written by Patrik Niels Jensen
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