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.
What is that sound
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Running round my head?
Funny, I thought
That part was long since dead
But now there's new life
Coursing through my veins
Because there's someone
To make it beat again
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Running round my head?
Funny, I thought
That part was long since dead
But now there's new life
Coursing through my veins
Because there's someone
To make it beat again
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
The sound that makes the world go 'round
What is that sound
Ringing in my ears?
The strangest sound
I've heard for years and years
The sound of two hearts
Beating side by side
The sound of one love
That neither one can hide
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for me is one of the gratest love songs ive ever heard, the lyric its completly pure and it makes you feel the real intimacy of true love pulsing inside, it makes you feel in love even when you are not. the complexity of the crazy beats from andys mind, its a real interpretation of how the love could sound inside your mind, the string arrangments and the choir its incredible they just appear at the right time, not before, not after. i think on this song as a metaphore of a feeling, every part of it is so confusing and pure at the same time that makes it feel like an emotion, a state of the mind that we can easily reach, just at listening, you may not understand the message at all but for sure you will feel it. the album What sound is the third ive heard from lamb and i feel they are really good, and this song especially is my favorite.pity they are now separated, but i trust they will be back one day...