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.
The velocity of time turns her voice into sugar water
I'm on a concrete way
The wind is blowing to the north-northwest
It smells like sands of the southern island
When a black cat crosses my path
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
I'm riding on a camel that has big eyes
The buildings are changing into coconut trees
Little by little
When a black cat crosses my path
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
We are taking sugar water shower
Shower
I'm on a concrete way
The wind is blowing to the north-northwest
It smells like sands of the southern island
When a black cat crosses my path
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
I'm riding on a camel that has big eyes
The buildings are changing into coconut trees
Little by little
When a black cat crosses my path
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
A woman in the moon is singing to the earth
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
La la la, la la la la la la
We are taking sugar water shower
Shower
Lyrics submitted by magicnudiesuit
Sugar Water Lyrics as written by Yuka Honda Miho Hatori
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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maybe it was just late at night and she and ehr friend had pants and permenent markers and art supplies and paper bags and animal crackers and lots of cds. and blank ones.