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.
Now the sun is burning
In deepest space
That's the way things are
Through a storm I called you
It fell each day
I didn't get so far
My words get blown away
My lips are moving
If you touch my face
Did you hear my scream?
While we were sleeping
I tried to say
Even in my dreams
My words get blown away
Now the sun is burning
In deepest space
I didn't get so far
In deepest space
That's the way things are
Through a storm I called you
It fell each day
I didn't get so far
My words get blown away
My lips are moving
If you touch my face
Did you hear my scream?
While we were sleeping
I tried to say
Even in my dreams
My words get blown away
Now the sun is burning
In deepest space
I didn't get so far
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I don't know, I really have the feelings that he wrote a lot of songs about being in the band touring. That has to be hard in a couple relationship.
My lips are moving If you touch my face Did you hear my scream? While we were sleeping I tried to say Even in my dreams My words get blown away
Different time-zone? He tries to call and she's sleeping?
It's Charles, probably everything has double and triple meanings, but I feel in my bones he is sharing this feeling