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.
Stop hitching the monster man
It was a bad plan,
But i had to get to town
Unbitten,
But the way i found it was a hand came down
And pow,
I got illuminated
That's why i have got my mind in my own
Hand over the wave,
Hand over the water,
The realest of the real
It's like the burnout said - phenomenon
To the ruder bar in a buddha plump van
It was a stamped can,
It was a clamor
Understanding,
And all you people jumping but we raised the bar
You're dumber than a box of rocks
Give up, star
The inscrutable,
The irrefutable,
The illegible,
The indisputable
The undisputed
Makes me go on a dig
It was a bad plan,
But i had to get to town
Unbitten,
But the way i found it was a hand came down
And pow,
I got illuminated
That's why i have got my mind in my own
Hand over the wave,
Hand over the water,
The realest of the real
It's like the burnout said - phenomenon
To the ruder bar in a buddha plump van
It was a stamped can,
It was a clamor
Understanding,
And all you people jumping but we raised the bar
You're dumber than a box of rocks
Give up, star
The inscrutable,
The irrefutable,
The illegible,
The indisputable
The undisputed
Makes me go on a dig
Lyrics submitted by bizzichild, edited by Mizeromusic
Monster Man Lyrics as written by Michael Doughty Mark Degliantoni
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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the dude he's scoring from is sketchy but he has to get to score. he feels guilty about doing heroin.