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 keep on falling on my way back to see you
and it’s just like autumn
you and I. U N I T Y .
but things just aint’ the same babe
ever since the radio spins me
I’m feeling dizzy
say this and repeat
there’s earth beneath my feet
I’m getting older
she’s getting younger see, but me
I aint’ her father as much as she wants me to be
it just makes me dizzy
yo dj, spin me round’
I keep on falling on my way
I feel just like autumn
I’m feeling dizzy
you just tell me I’m wasting time
I turn around and I wonder why
the world keeps spinning me rown and round
while it just sits me down,
there’s a hole in the ground in a Tinseltown
I spin from what I’ve heard.
I’m feeling dizzy
what you heard, it’s no bird,
it just spins me around
33 and a 3rd,
all the way down to the neighborhood
I just wanna tell ya so its understood?
I don’t wanna tell ya that the boy is good
just watch it come around into
your town on the radio dial
make you smile
don’t have to kill yourself to put it around
put me on your wall
but I’m falling down
and my brains splattered all over the ground
ch, ch cha ch, cha, cha blaow !!
Lyrics submitted by dudeabides
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