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.
Now you don't have a word to call this kind of a year
That made you kneel and beg it to turn you right
Two dead birds underneath the headlights
Every sound they ever made to call out they are alive
Every piece of me that breaks, trying to keep from the side of doubt
Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter, don't you take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
Even your breath is breathing for another one
Don't you just take the dark way out
Thin wind ringing in the silver tines
Yeah, it took you by the throat but it wasn't the killing kind
And now you don't tell it like you used to
Every day left in the dark is going to come back to you
Every hope left in your heart is waiting on what you'll do with doubt
Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter, don't you take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
Even your blood is beating for another one
Don't you just take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
The reasons are all dead and they're growing in the ground
So why does it give? Why the take? Why the bitter kiss?
Why the me? Why the anything? Just be the man
Be the child, be the cold midnight soaking the bones of this town
In the breath, in the beak, in the honey taken from every green thing giving sweet
In the call, in the pull, in the want and want, in the sound even your own body knows
All there is, seed and shell, your hands are lined with all that they haven't held
That made you kneel and beg it to turn you right
Two dead birds underneath the headlights
Every sound they ever made to call out they are alive
Every piece of me that breaks, trying to keep from the side of doubt
Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter, don't you take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
Even your breath is breathing for another one
Don't you just take the dark way out
Thin wind ringing in the silver tines
Yeah, it took you by the throat but it wasn't the killing kind
And now you don't tell it like you used to
Every day left in the dark is going to come back to you
Every hope left in your heart is waiting on what you'll do with doubt
Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter, don't you take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
Even your blood is beating for another one
Don't you just take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
The reasons are all dead and they're growing in the ground
So why does it give? Why the take? Why the bitter kiss?
Why the me? Why the anything? Just be the man
Be the child, be the cold midnight soaking the bones of this town
In the breath, in the beak, in the honey taken from every green thing giving sweet
In the call, in the pull, in the want and want, in the sound even your own body knows
All there is, seed and shell, your hands are lined with all that they haven't held
Lyrics submitted by tydurden2000
Don't Doubt Lyrics as written by Aaron Nebeker
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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