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.
Could you be lost
Are you so free, do you long to be
When the sun goes down, do you feel the feeling there's no one near
You know it's such a mystery how you washed up over me
And I couldn't breathe, I couldn't speak, lest I drown
But it's my kind
I'll never be cruel and I'll always play the fool
To be as loveless, as shameless as you.
But I'm so blind
I'll do it again I feel your eyes sink in
So faithless as you've been.
Yes I'm so lost
I am not free but I long to be
When life goes down, do you fell as though you're gonna drown
You're going down (you're going down x5)
But it's my kind
I'll never be cruel and I'll always play the fool
To be as loveless, as shameless as you.
But I'm so blind
I'll do it again I feel your eyes sink in
So faithless as you've been.
Yes I'm so lost
But I'm not free, yes I'm so lost
But I long to be
But it's my kind
I'll never be cruel and I'll always play the fool
To be as loveless, as shameless as you.
But I'm so blind
I'll do it again I feel your eyes sink in
So faithless as you've been
So faithless as you've been
Are you so free, do you long to be
When the sun goes down, do you feel the feeling there's no one near
You know it's such a mystery how you washed up over me
And I couldn't breathe, I couldn't speak, lest I drown
But it's my kind
I'll never be cruel and I'll always play the fool
To be as loveless, as shameless as you.
But I'm so blind
I'll do it again I feel your eyes sink in
So faithless as you've been.
Yes I'm so lost
I am not free but I long to be
When life goes down, do you fell as though you're gonna drown
You're going down (you're going down x5)
But it's my kind
I'll never be cruel and I'll always play the fool
To be as loveless, as shameless as you.
But I'm so blind
I'll do it again I feel your eyes sink in
So faithless as you've been.
Yes I'm so lost
But I'm not free, yes I'm so lost
But I long to be
But it's my kind
I'll never be cruel and I'll always play the fool
To be as loveless, as shameless as you.
But I'm so blind
I'll do it again I feel your eyes sink in
So faithless as you've been
So faithless as you've been
Lyrics submitted by carboncentric
Faithless Lyrics as written by Daniel Blaine Grady
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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