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.
Everything in time
Set your eyes upon the shallow surface
Hollow out your mind
How divine, you disengage your self
Tell me
Tell me of your consolation
Tell me
I am lost in the gray
Tell me that your final home is not a...
A shot in the dark
Tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart
Of a graveyard
Set aside your soul
Let tomorrow realize itself
Tell me
Tell me of your consolation
Tell me
I am lost in the gray
Tell me that your final home is not a...
A shot in the dark
Tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart
Of a graveyard
Brace for the ending
You may not see
Will you stop descending
Six shallow feet
Tell me
Tell me of your consolation
Tell me
I am lost in the gray
Tell me that your final home is not a...
A shot in the dark
Tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart
Of a graveyard
Set your eyes upon the shallow surface
Hollow out your mind
How divine, you disengage your self
Tell me
Tell me of your consolation
Tell me
I am lost in the gray
Tell me that your final home is not a...
A shot in the dark
Tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart
Of a graveyard
Set aside your soul
Let tomorrow realize itself
Tell me
Tell me of your consolation
Tell me
I am lost in the gray
Tell me that your final home is not a...
A shot in the dark
Tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart
Of a graveyard
Brace for the ending
You may not see
Will you stop descending
Six shallow feet
Tell me
Tell me of your consolation
Tell me
I am lost in the gray
Tell me that your final home is not a...
A shot in the dark
Tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart
Of a graveyard
Lyrics submitted by Skoobasteve24, edited by TofuBug2
The Heart of a Graveyard Lyrics as written by Ryan Curtis Clark
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I haven't studied the lyrics of this song in depth yet, but as a preliminary interpretation, I see the singer asking a fellow believer to help them regain hope in Christianity. Ryan Clark asks, "tell me that your final hope is not a shot in the dark" . That is to say, tell me that our hope, our beliefs are not false, and that we have a sliver of a chance that God and heaven is for real. The same general meaning is said through the second line "tell me that your hopes and dreams don't end in the heart of a graveyard." Just my to cents.