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.
We shall not cease from exploration
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
T.S. Elliot
Back to a place and time when I was young
In a simple world so far away
All the memories coming back to me
Made me what I am
The land I knew for so very long
I had to leave but never let go
Time has passed again here I am
Where the story began
Life had taken this world away from me
Through wiser eyes I see
Home to my new native land
But so foreign to me
Where I roam, where I cry
Where I sleep, where I will lie
Where I dream, where I survive
Where I believe, where I'm alive
This land- my native land, once upon a dream
I saw your towers standing so tall
This land- my native land, ruined remains
Fallen before me, lying at my feet
Full circle, here I stand
Once a boy, now a man
I returned to a new native land
Now I can move on
This land, my native land, once upon a dream
I saw your towers standing so tall
This land, my native land, and today I know
My time has come to let go
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
T.S. Elliot
Back to a place and time when I was young
In a simple world so far away
All the memories coming back to me
Made me what I am
The land I knew for so very long
I had to leave but never let go
Time has passed again here I am
Where the story began
Life had taken this world away from me
Through wiser eyes I see
Home to my new native land
But so foreign to me
Where I roam, where I cry
Where I sleep, where I will lie
Where I dream, where I survive
Where I believe, where I'm alive
This land- my native land, once upon a dream
I saw your towers standing so tall
This land- my native land, ruined remains
Fallen before me, lying at my feet
Full circle, here I stand
Once a boy, now a man
I returned to a new native land
Now I can move on
This land, my native land, once upon a dream
I saw your towers standing so tall
This land, my native land, and today I know
My time has come to let go
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
Native to His Land Lyrics as written by L. Dean Harris Gordon Tittsworth
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave
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