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.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
The strangeness that I feel
Rattles my bones
It rattles my bones
Ain't no bonebag
I'm tired and sagging
Only 21 but feel like 99 sometimes
Just sittin' here
In my lazy chair
Watching all the young ones
With their grey hair
Ain't no bonebag
I'm tired and sagging
You know I feel like 99 sometimes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bonebag
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
Tired and sagging
Only 21 but I feel like 99 sometimes
Makes me feel like 99
Feel like 99
And I feel, feel, feel...
Feel like 99
Only 21 sometimes
Feel like
Feel like
Bonebag
Bonebag
Bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
Bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
And I feel like 99 sometimes
Ain't no bonebag
I'm tired and sagging
I ain't no bonebag
I'm tired anymore
Only 21
Like 99 sometimes
The strangeness that I feel
Rattles my bones
It rattles my bones
Ain't no bonebag
I'm tired and sagging
Only 21 but feel like 99 sometimes
Just sittin' here
In my lazy chair
Watching all the young ones
With their grey hair
Ain't no bonebag
I'm tired and sagging
You know I feel like 99 sometimes
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bonebag
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
Tired and sagging
Only 21 but I feel like 99 sometimes
Makes me feel like 99
Feel like 99
And I feel, feel, feel...
Feel like 99
Only 21 sometimes
Feel like
Feel like
Bonebag
Bonebag
Bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
Bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
Ain't no bonebag
And I feel like 99 sometimes
Ain't no bonebag
I'm tired and sagging
I ain't no bonebag
I'm tired anymore
Only 21
Like 99 sometimes
Lyrics submitted by sobot
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