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 used to wake without this pain in my chest
I used to sleep without ever waking up
Now I wake up in a cold sweat (can't take off these dirty sheets)
I'm hardly dreaming anymore (a big nothing is all I see)
And though I'm lying in the same bed (where we used to be)
It doesn't feel like home
Your hands, I can still feel them
But I didn't want to wake up
And I guess your doing fine, cause I'm doing too
Or maybe I just don't?
Maybe I could float above the water
Like a pile of leaves
But I feel like a stone
Your hands, I can still feel them
But I didn't want to wake up
And I guess your doing fine, cause I'm doing too
Or maybe I just don't?
Now I wake up in a cold sweat
I'm hardly dreaming anymore
And though I'm lying in the same bed
It doesn't feel like home
I used to sleep without ever waking up
Now I wake up in a cold sweat (can't take off these dirty sheets)
I'm hardly dreaming anymore (a big nothing is all I see)
And though I'm lying in the same bed (where we used to be)
It doesn't feel like home
Your hands, I can still feel them
But I didn't want to wake up
And I guess your doing fine, cause I'm doing too
Or maybe I just don't?
Maybe I could float above the water
Like a pile of leaves
But I feel like a stone
Your hands, I can still feel them
But I didn't want to wake up
And I guess your doing fine, cause I'm doing too
Or maybe I just don't?
Now I wake up in a cold sweat
I'm hardly dreaming anymore
And though I'm lying in the same bed
It doesn't feel like home
Lyrics submitted by darkforce100
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