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 can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love
Sure I'm C.F.K.
But you gotta love me
The cost no man can say
But you gotta love me
Well I'm sorry but I'm not
Interested in gold mines,
Oil wells, shipping or real estate
What would I liked to have been?
Everything you hate
'Cause it can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love
There is a man
A certain man
And for the poor you may be sure
That he'll do all he can
Who is this one?
Whose favorite son?
Just by his action has the traction
Magnets on the run
Who likes to smoke?
Enjoys a joke?
And wouldn't get a bit
Upset if he were really broke?
With wealth and fame
He's still the same
I'll bet you five you're not alive
If you don't know his name
You said the union forever
You said the union forever
You cried the union forever
But that was untrue girl
'Cause it can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love
Sure I'm C.F.K.
But you gotta love me
The cost no man can say
But you gotta love me
Well I'm sorry but I'm not
Interested in gold mines,
Oil wells, shipping or real estate
What would I liked to have been?
Everything you hate
'Cause it can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love
There is a man
A certain man
And for the poor you may be sure
That he'll do all he can
Who is this one?
Whose favorite son?
Just by his action has the traction
Magnets on the run
Who likes to smoke?
Enjoys a joke?
And wouldn't get a bit
Upset if he were really broke?
With wealth and fame
He's still the same
I'll bet you five you're not alive
If you don't know his name
You said the union forever
You said the union forever
You cried the union forever
But that was untrue girl
'Cause it can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love
Lyrics submitted by weezerific:cutlery, edited by DanVitaleRocks
The Union Forever Lyrics as written by Jack White Pepe Guizar
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Peermusic Publishing
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