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.
Reach out, call my name
Whenever you want
Faced with the final convulsion
Contorting my tongue
And reach out, fall my way
Easing around
It's not a word that's exchanged
It's something else
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
Reach out, crawl my way
Any time
Rapid, indirect feelings
I qualify
Every day we're circling
Never closing in on what we want
But can you feel the quickening
Seven million moments down to one
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
Whenever you want
Faced with the final convulsion
Contorting my tongue
And reach out, fall my way
Easing around
It's not a word that's exchanged
It's something else
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
Reach out, crawl my way
Any time
Rapid, indirect feelings
I qualify
Every day we're circling
Never closing in on what we want
But can you feel the quickening
Seven million moments down to one
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
I died a hundred times
I reckon you could
Let it bleed
'Cause I'm resigned
And I'm watching you walk
Across that fine line
Lyrics submitted by edivaldo10
Across That Fine Line Lyrics as written by Ian Richard Devaney
Lyrics © Sentric Music, Downtown Music Publishing
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