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.
Morning oh dreadful dawn, spread your pale dim light
Reign for your last time over lands once so bright
But your energy shall be weak, and soon to die
So die in pain my dear, expire, goodbye
Ages has past since your eyes enlightened the earth
from a source of light that gave all godness birth
But your energy is weak and soon to die
The ground is sour from the evil that here lie
I have come to challenge your ways
Light's bane
The last of your days
Oh broken wings
My darkness enslaves
Allow me to erase your feeble race
Morning, so feeble dawn, spread no pale dim light
You've been breeding for your last time, a source without might
An epitaph oh lost worthlessness
Still echoes your last cries
The earth is pure of the evil that here thrives
I have come to challenge your ways
Light's bane
The last of your days
Oh broken wings
My darkness enslaves
Allow me to erase your feeble race
What marks the death of "god" is the twilight for a dark age
His creation being plagued with the venomous blood of ours
The sky suffocates eclipsed by a black mist of hatred
Where goodness cannot reach the fire burns in dark flames
I have come to challenge your ways
Light's bane
The last of your days
Oh broken wings
My darkness enslaves
Will you allow me to erase your feeble race?
Reign for your last time over lands once so bright
But your energy shall be weak, and soon to die
So die in pain my dear, expire, goodbye
Ages has past since your eyes enlightened the earth
from a source of light that gave all godness birth
But your energy is weak and soon to die
The ground is sour from the evil that here lie
I have come to challenge your ways
Light's bane
The last of your days
Oh broken wings
My darkness enslaves
Allow me to erase your feeble race
Morning, so feeble dawn, spread no pale dim light
You've been breeding for your last time, a source without might
An epitaph oh lost worthlessness
Still echoes your last cries
The earth is pure of the evil that here thrives
I have come to challenge your ways
Light's bane
The last of your days
Oh broken wings
My darkness enslaves
Allow me to erase your feeble race
What marks the death of "god" is the twilight for a dark age
His creation being plagued with the venomous blood of ours
The sky suffocates eclipsed by a black mist of hatred
Where goodness cannot reach the fire burns in dark flames
I have come to challenge your ways
Light's bane
The last of your days
Oh broken wings
My darkness enslaves
Will you allow me to erase your feeble race?
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Retribution - Storm of the Light's Bane Lyrics as written by Jon Andreas Nodtveidt John Allan Zwetsloot
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