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 come to you, though I am dead
(Because of trauma to the head...
and, well, the rest of my body too)
They call me by the name of Nü-Nü
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day, from Nü-Nü-Nüns
Ooh, ooh, Nünerino, Nüns
Oh, Vivian, you let me die
Now I am alone in the sky
I come bearing Mother's Day wishes
For cat food in twenty-five dishes.
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns.
Happy Mother's Day, from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
I come to you, though I am dead
(Because of trauma to the head...
and, well, the rest of my body too)
They call me by the name of Nü-Nü
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day from Nü-Nü-Nüns
Ooh, ooh, Nünerino, Nüns
Oh, Vivian, you let me die
Now I am alone in the sky
I come bearing Mother's Day wishes
for cat food in twenty-five dishes
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day from Nü-Nü-Nüns
Ooh, ooh, Nünerino, Nüns
(Because of trauma to the head...
and, well, the rest of my body too)
They call me by the name of Nü-Nü
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day, from Nü-Nü-Nüns
Ooh, ooh, Nünerino, Nüns
Oh, Vivian, you let me die
Now I am alone in the sky
I come bearing Mother's Day wishes
For cat food in twenty-five dishes.
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns.
Happy Mother's Day, from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
I come to you, though I am dead
(Because of trauma to the head...
and, well, the rest of my body too)
They call me by the name of Nü-Nü
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day from Nü-Nü-Nüns
Ooh, ooh, Nünerino, Nüns
Oh, Vivian, you let me die
Now I am alone in the sky
I come bearing Mother's Day wishes
for cat food in twenty-five dishes
Happy Mother's Day from Nüns
Happy Mother's Day from Nü-Nü-Nüns
Ooh, ooh, Nünerino, Nüns
Lyrics submitted by analyzed.by.ruji
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