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.
Tell me golden ocean love
Hopeless but adored
Sea-slick symboled wants for more
He draws the Raven's card
Give me forward motion love
Seas of white unfold
Sky's black servant divinate
Show us what you hold
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you mine?
Those feathered lashes you're hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Don't you know I think about it all of the time?
Diamond islands in your eyes
Blackest in the sun
Ancient watcher divinate
You're the only one
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you mine?
Those feathered lashes you're hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Don't you know I think about it all of the time?
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you kind?
Those withered words that ring in your mind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Window watcher, I want you
To feel water
To feel fire
To feel water
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you mine?
Those feathered lashes you're hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Window watcher, I want you, come down and be mine
Little watcher, come closer, I need you
Oh, love are you kind?
Those withered words that ring in your mind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you see?
Is it all what you want it, want it to be?
Come down, storm crow
From your window
Come down, storm crow
Find your way home
Find your way home
Hopeless but adored
Sea-slick symboled wants for more
He draws the Raven's card
Give me forward motion love
Seas of white unfold
Sky's black servant divinate
Show us what you hold
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you mine?
Those feathered lashes you're hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Don't you know I think about it all of the time?
Diamond islands in your eyes
Blackest in the sun
Ancient watcher divinate
You're the only one
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you mine?
Those feathered lashes you're hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Don't you know I think about it all of the time?
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you kind?
Those withered words that ring in your mind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Window watcher, I want you
To feel water
To feel fire
To feel water
Window watcher, I want you, come on
Oh, love are you mine?
Those feathered lashes you're hiding behind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you find?
Window watcher, I want you, come down and be mine
Little watcher, come closer, I need you
Oh, love are you kind?
Those withered words that ring in your mind
Does it catch in your chest?
Do you like what you see?
Is it all what you want it, want it to be?
Come down, storm crow
From your window
Come down, storm crow
Find your way home
Find your way home
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher, edited by DrMoribundus
Dream the Dare Lyrics as written by Sarah Marie Versprille Daniel Mcfaul Hindman
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I'm going to make an attempt at interpretation of this song (and could also add more given I don't have time to get too detailed in my analysis of so many dense poetic lines):
She uses a lot of mythical and mystical language to capture the mysterious creator of consciousness up to our current state. She fluctuates her language from collective conscious to personal consciousness and those moments of connection between the two (mystical experiences).
Some of the language is in the window watcher attempt to experience itself through other forms of consciousness. Driving our inate desire to satisfy collective consciousness by experiencing itselt through forms, in our case, life through the human form. She refers to her conscious awareness or soul behind her eyes, which is hardest to see in the sun because we are bombarded by visual external stimuli as we perceive energy being hit by photons, being perceived through a limited human brain and body.
In this attempt to expand consciousness and experience itself and to experience the external stimuli that the body experiences (experiencing water and fire), it led some conflict and suffering over humanity. Only the source of consciousness that encompasses all consciousness can save us collectively and individually, and we are all a part of that.
However, it seems like the writer is calling for help from the overall mysterious consciousness behind everything and beyond humanity consciousness, to intervene. It's basically a hipsters prayer to save humanity of the problems associated with the Raven card.