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.
There's a hunger rising in the air tonight
And I'll burn for you in the morning light
It's been too long, I can't wait no more
Stay home tonight and lock your door
I need you there beside me
Take me in your arms
To feel the wind rush by me
I'm hungrier now than I ever was
Like the night we came together on that fiery starry night
You took my breath from me and you rocked me to my bones
The fire that burned that night still burns deep down inside of me
I'm wilder than I'll ever be, ever be
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
And it'll be that way 'til the day I die
Call me thunder
There's a place I see in my mind's eye
Young lovers beneath a blood red sky
And we didn't care if the world looked on
'Cause we knew these days would soon be gone
And the flames grew all around us
As we lit that promised land
I can feel it burning in me
And I'm hungrier now than I ever was
And we'll walk this short beneath the moon and lay out in the sand
And when I'm drunk on you and crashed out in the dunes
I'll be that woman now that once brought out the man in you
I'm younger than I'll ever be, ever be
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
And it'll be that way 'til the day I die
Call me thunder
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
And it'll be that way 'til the day I die
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
And I'll burn for you in the morning light
It's been too long, I can't wait no more
Stay home tonight and lock your door
I need you there beside me
Take me in your arms
To feel the wind rush by me
I'm hungrier now than I ever was
Like the night we came together on that fiery starry night
You took my breath from me and you rocked me to my bones
The fire that burned that night still burns deep down inside of me
I'm wilder than I'll ever be, ever be
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
And it'll be that way 'til the day I die
Call me thunder
There's a place I see in my mind's eye
Young lovers beneath a blood red sky
And we didn't care if the world looked on
'Cause we knew these days would soon be gone
And the flames grew all around us
As we lit that promised land
I can feel it burning in me
And I'm hungrier now than I ever was
And we'll walk this short beneath the moon and lay out in the sand
And when I'm drunk on you and crashed out in the dunes
I'll be that woman now that once brought out the man in you
I'm younger than I'll ever be, ever be
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
And it'll be that way 'til the day I die
Call me thunder
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
And it'll be that way 'til the day I die
Call me thunder in the morning
Call me lightning through the night
Anytime you want me, I'm gonna be there for you
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Call Me Thunder Lyrics as written by Stephen Paul Womack
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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This is about an older couple who still believe they can still go for it he’ll for leather. It’s based on an old English joke involving an electric fence.
This is about an older couple who still believe they can still go for it he’ll for leather. It’s based on an old English joke involving an electric fence.