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.
Birds in the air
Never chirped the same
Slobs in bowling alleys
Never burped the same
They came to cry,
Shocked with disbelief
A broken mass of millions
All drowning in their grief
She was just an innocent
How could you, lord?
They cried the day
That Farrah Fawcett died
Throughout the globe
Every Chinese man and Turk
Their unifying symbol
They really liked her work
But who's to blame?
No one made a move
Until I find out who did this
Nobody leaves the room
They say the road was icy
But that just don't add up
A bushy haired intruder
Another government cover up!
A drug-related overdose
A hunting accident
Death at the hands of another, I'll bet!
First JFK and then we lost the King
Thank god it must be over now
They say they come in threes
But still I ache
The world has lost a friend
I'll trade all
Of my viewmaster reels
To see her once again
Never chirped the same
Slobs in bowling alleys
Never burped the same
They came to cry,
Shocked with disbelief
A broken mass of millions
All drowning in their grief
She was just an innocent
How could you, lord?
They cried the day
That Farrah Fawcett died
Throughout the globe
Every Chinese man and Turk
Their unifying symbol
They really liked her work
But who's to blame?
No one made a move
Until I find out who did this
Nobody leaves the room
They say the road was icy
But that just don't add up
A bushy haired intruder
Another government cover up!
A drug-related overdose
A hunting accident
Death at the hands of another, I'll bet!
First JFK and then we lost the King
Thank god it must be over now
They say they come in threes
But still I ache
The world has lost a friend
I'll trade all
Of my viewmaster reels
To see her once again
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No, sir. No you are not.