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.
Thread by thread, I pull apart my shelter, push ahead
But when I find just what I’m looking for,
I’m gonna need a friend, an open door
To be naive, to let it pass me by, and to relieve
Myself of everything in front of me.
To neglect responsibility
I’m gonna call on somebody, in a cry or plea
Could be something discovered in reality
I couldn’t tell ya, it hits us in different ways
I know we’re young but I feel so old
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
One by one we become undone
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
Now we’re here, but all we want to do is dissapear
And that thread that you were walking on
Has now withered in your years withdrawn
You’re gonna call on somebody, in a cry or plea
Could be something discovered, in reality, well
I couldn’t tell ya, it hits us in different ways
I know we’re young but I feel so old
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
One by one we become undone
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
Oh, the days they pass me by
I sit still but I don’t know why
And in the night, I’ll rise
I’ll never go, so I'll never know
I know we’re young but I feel so old
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
One by one we become undone
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
But when I find just what I’m looking for,
I’m gonna need a friend, an open door
To be naive, to let it pass me by, and to relieve
Myself of everything in front of me.
To neglect responsibility
I’m gonna call on somebody, in a cry or plea
Could be something discovered in reality
I couldn’t tell ya, it hits us in different ways
I know we’re young but I feel so old
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
One by one we become undone
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
Now we’re here, but all we want to do is dissapear
And that thread that you were walking on
Has now withered in your years withdrawn
You’re gonna call on somebody, in a cry or plea
Could be something discovered, in reality, well
I couldn’t tell ya, it hits us in different ways
I know we’re young but I feel so old
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
One by one we become undone
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
Oh, the days they pass me by
I sit still but I don’t know why
And in the night, I’ll rise
I’ll never go, so I'll never know
I know we’re young but I feel so old
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
One by one we become undone
Get me the doctor, call me the doctor
Lyrics submitted by dragonfli
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