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 keep on losing the keys
From reality
And now I'm passing on the wheel
To insanity.
In a secluded corner
Waiting for my time to come,
Waiting for the bedlam
To be pacified.
I am climbing hand over fist
And I scratch concrete.
Shine in the end My mistake
It's not there.
The air is terribly heavy here.
It settles inside
And I suffer burn after burn
From the dark. Burn.
In a pit of consciousness
Squeal is bleeding
So I feel there was someone else
Before me.
Eyes are changing colors.
A stranger knocks on my mind.
I became a foreigner
To myself!
Myself!
Stillness stuns. Wish I'd run
Creeped away to the light.
In my head someone else
Setting snares
For my soul.
In the darkest place
What was once named consciousness
I'm a miniature,
I'm a sketch forfeiting outlines.
Irrelevant entity to sanity,
A hive for nonsense,
For multiple selves
Resonating, but never compromising.
Stillness stuns. Wish I'd run
Creeped away to the light.
In my head someone else
Setting snares
For my soul.
For my soul
From reality
And now I'm passing on the wheel
To insanity.
In a secluded corner
Waiting for my time to come,
Waiting for the bedlam
To be pacified.
I am climbing hand over fist
And I scratch concrete.
Shine in the end My mistake
It's not there.
The air is terribly heavy here.
It settles inside
And I suffer burn after burn
From the dark. Burn.
In a pit of consciousness
Squeal is bleeding
So I feel there was someone else
Before me.
Eyes are changing colors.
A stranger knocks on my mind.
I became a foreigner
To myself!
Myself!
Stillness stuns. Wish I'd run
Creeped away to the light.
In my head someone else
Setting snares
For my soul.
In the darkest place
What was once named consciousness
I'm a miniature,
I'm a sketch forfeiting outlines.
Irrelevant entity to sanity,
A hive for nonsense,
For multiple selves
Resonating, but never compromising.
Stillness stuns. Wish I'd run
Creeped away to the light.
In my head someone else
Setting snares
For my soul.
For my soul
Lyrics submitted by BreezyDragon
Pit of Consciousness Lyrics as written by Roman Ibramkhalilov Eugene Abdiukhanov
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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