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.
You came in my life, showing me the bright lights
I was blown away
The first boy to show me love
then takes it away the next day when I had lost myself
Fuck you for fucking me when I was seventeen
You knew it all the time
You never loved me you wanted to own me
Your time will come, my friend
I hope that you cannot sleep, I hope you lose all of your dreams
for taking my youth away
Now years has gone and I know you are all alone
I'm forgetting you when I'm alone
Fuck you for fucking me when I was seventeen
You knew it all the time
You never loved me you wanted to own me
Your time will come, my friend
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
I was blown away
The first boy to show me love
then takes it away the next day when I had lost myself
Fuck you for fucking me when I was seventeen
You knew it all the time
You never loved me you wanted to own me
Your time will come, my friend
I hope that you cannot sleep, I hope you lose all of your dreams
for taking my youth away
Now years has gone and I know you are all alone
I'm forgetting you when I'm alone
Fuck you for fucking me when I was seventeen
You knew it all the time
You never loved me you wanted to own me
Your time will come, my friend
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
You are my weakest past and I'm never turning back
Lyrics submitted by WelcomeWagon
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