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.
It’s a tragedy, the fall of the king
Shot a dynasty, bang, in the head
And did you notice all of the little things
We never did?
On the bright side, on the bright side
Can’t tell me that I didn’t at least try
It gets biblical, with boiling moats
That’s a metaphor but pretty close
The castle’s haunted by everybody’s ghost
Who didn’t go
On the bright side, on the bright side
Can’t tell me that I didn’t at least try
We did the best that we could, honest
We stopped when you were just getting started
We did the best that we could, honest
We stopped when you were just getting started
On the bright side, on the bright side
Can’t tell me that I didn’t at least try
Shot a dynasty, bang, in the head
And did you notice all of the little things
We never did?
On the bright side, on the bright side
Can’t tell me that I didn’t at least try
It gets biblical, with boiling moats
That’s a metaphor but pretty close
The castle’s haunted by everybody’s ghost
Who didn’t go
On the bright side, on the bright side
Can’t tell me that I didn’t at least try
We did the best that we could, honest
We stopped when you were just getting started
We did the best that we could, honest
We stopped when you were just getting started
On the bright side, on the bright side
Can’t tell me that I didn’t at least try
Lyrics submitted by totem5sk
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