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.
I’m just looking to live to learn how to live
Slowly staring to see it’s me I will need to forgive
Cuz it seems like I’m stuck here between
What I know and what I cannot know now
With too many choices of which way to go
Insight's a no show
I don’t need a miracle
I’m much more predictable
I just need you to show me this life
And if you ain’t too critical
We could be something beautiful
I just need you to show me this life (Take me home tonight)
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
My ecstasy
If I can’t decide to offer my choice
Does it mean I’m replacing, erasing your beautiful voice?
So every time you would tell me a lie, I could happily take it
If all revelations would idly flow by, I wouldn’t even fake it
I don’t need a miracle
I’m much more predictable
I just need you to show me this life
And if you ain’t too critical
We could be something beautiful
I just need you to show me this life (Take me home tonight)
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
My ecstasy
I though I’d see it for myself
But this life ain’t, it ain’t for me alone
And here I thought I would keep it for myself
But you can slice that light right off my sun
Your razor blade caress of love
I don’t need a miracle
I’m much more predictable
I just need you to show me this life
And if you ain’t too critical
We could be something beautiful
I just need you to show me this life (Take me home tonight)
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
My ecstasy
Slowly staring to see it’s me I will need to forgive
Cuz it seems like I’m stuck here between
What I know and what I cannot know now
With too many choices of which way to go
Insight's a no show
I don’t need a miracle
I’m much more predictable
I just need you to show me this life
And if you ain’t too critical
We could be something beautiful
I just need you to show me this life (Take me home tonight)
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
My ecstasy
If I can’t decide to offer my choice
Does it mean I’m replacing, erasing your beautiful voice?
So every time you would tell me a lie, I could happily take it
If all revelations would idly flow by, I wouldn’t even fake it
I don’t need a miracle
I’m much more predictable
I just need you to show me this life
And if you ain’t too critical
We could be something beautiful
I just need you to show me this life (Take me home tonight)
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
My ecstasy
I though I’d see it for myself
But this life ain’t, it ain’t for me alone
And here I thought I would keep it for myself
But you can slice that light right off my sun
Your razor blade caress of love
I don’t need a miracle
I’m much more predictable
I just need you to show me this life
And if you ain’t too critical
We could be something beautiful
I just need you to show me this life (Take me home tonight)
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
Just a fantasy away
Your naked love laid next to me
My ecstasy
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There were a few mistakes or misheard words, but they're corrected now. :)