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've heard this one before about the princess and the pauper and i know just how it ends now it doesn't end well it just ends some things you learn from hurting yourself and some things you learn from hurting someone else and anyway i don't think i'll be coming back here again 'cause she's got plans and all and i don't think i fit in she said that i'm a shining star in her sky and i feel that far away i'll make a wish for the best of all the little things that i miss and just walk away always the wrong way never the right way forward and backward over and over talk is cheap so i bought every word you said it scared me half to death now i'm half dead and anyway i don't think i'll be coming back here again 'cause she's got plans and all and i don't think i fit in every time that i fall you're standing over me
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this is my favorite brandtson song, its sooooooo awesome, i love how brandtson really has a way with words and there music talent is unbelievable.