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.
You believe that I've changed your life forever
And you're never going to find another somebody like me
And you wish you had more than just a lifetime to give back all I've given you
And that's what you believe
But I O you the sunlight in the morning
And nights of honest loving that time can't take away
And I O you more than life now more than ever
I know that it's the sweetest debt I'll ever have to pay
I'm amazed when you say it's me you live for
You know that when I'm holding you, you're right where you belong
And my love, I can't help but smile and wonder
When you tell me all I've done for you cause I've known all along
Cause I O you the sunlight in the morning
And nights of honest loving that time can't take away
And I O you more than life now more than ever
I know that it's the sweetest debt I'll ever have to pay
Oh, I O you the sunlight in the morning
And nights of honest loving that time can't take away
And I O you more than life now more than ever
I know that it's the sweetest debt I'll ever have to pay
And you're never going to find another somebody like me
And you wish you had more than just a lifetime to give back all I've given you
And that's what you believe
But I O you the sunlight in the morning
And nights of honest loving that time can't take away
And I O you more than life now more than ever
I know that it's the sweetest debt I'll ever have to pay
I'm amazed when you say it's me you live for
You know that when I'm holding you, you're right where you belong
And my love, I can't help but smile and wonder
When you tell me all I've done for you cause I've known all along
Cause I O you the sunlight in the morning
And nights of honest loving that time can't take away
And I O you more than life now more than ever
I know that it's the sweetest debt I'll ever have to pay
Oh, I O you the sunlight in the morning
And nights of honest loving that time can't take away
And I O you more than life now more than ever
I know that it's the sweetest debt I'll ever have to pay
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Iou Lyrics as written by Kerry Chater Austin Roberts
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Downtown Music Publishing
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