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.
Björk :
Clatter, crash, clack
Racket, bang, thump
Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam!
It's music
Now dance
Listen, Cvalda
You're the dancer
You got the sparkle
In your eyes
Look at me entrancer
Clatter, crash, clack
Racket, bang, thump
Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam!
It's the clatter machines
They greet you
And say
We tap out a rhythm
And sweep you away
A clatter machine
What a magical sound
A room full of noises
That spins you around
Catherine Deneuve :
Darling, Selma
Look who's dancing
Faster than a
Shooting star
Cvalda's here
Cvalda sings
Björk :
Clatter, crash, clack
Racket, bang, thump
Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam!
It's the clatter machines
They greet you
And say
We tap out a rhythm
And sweep you away
A clatter machine
What a magical sound
And full of noises
That spins us around
That spins us around
It spins us around
Clatter, crash, clack
Racket, bang, thump
Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam!
It's music
Now dance
Listen, Cvalda
You're the dancer
You got the sparkle
In your eyes
Look at me entrancer
Clatter, crash, clack
Racket, bang, thump
Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam!
It's the clatter machines
They greet you
And say
We tap out a rhythm
And sweep you away
A clatter machine
What a magical sound
A room full of noises
That spins you around
Catherine Deneuve :
Darling, Selma
Look who's dancing
Faster than a
Shooting star
Cvalda's here
Cvalda sings
Björk :
Clatter, crash, clack
Racket, bang, thump
Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam!
It's the clatter machines
They greet you
And say
We tap out a rhythm
And sweep you away
A clatter machine
What a magical sound
And full of noises
That spins us around
That spins us around
It spins us around
Lyrics submitted by Nelly
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This song is just cool