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.
Let's go
With bloodshot eyes, I watch you sleeping
The warmth I feel beside me is slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
The moments died, I hear no screaming
The visions left inside me are slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Oh, yeah
This battered room I've seen before
The broken bones they heal no more, no more
With my last breath I'm choking
Will this ever end? I'm hoping
My world is over one more time
Let's go
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
(tears don't fall) Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
(conscience calls) her conscious calls, the guilty to come
Better
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home (conscience calls)
With bloodshot eyes, I watch you sleeping
The warmth I feel beside me is slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
The moments died, I hear no screaming
The visions left inside me are slowly fading
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
Oh, yeah
This battered room I've seen before
The broken bones they heal no more, no more
With my last breath I'm choking
Will this ever end? I'm hoping
My world is over one more time
Let's go
Would she hear me, if I called her name?
Would she hold me, if she knew my shame?
There's always something different going on
The path I walk's in the wrong direction
There's always someone fucking hanging on
Can anybody help me make things better?
(Tears) your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home
(tears don't fall) Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
(conscience calls) her conscious calls, the guilty to come
Better
Your tears don't fall, they crash around me
Her conscious calls, the guilty to come home (conscience calls)
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