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.
Never leaves a gap unfilled
Always pays on time
Always fits the bill
He comes well prepared
Cube top, squared-off
Eight corners, 90 degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Stock parts, blockhead
Never tips over
Stands up on his own
He is a blockhead
Thinking man full grown
He comes well prepared
Cube top, squared-off
Eight corners, 90 degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Snake eyes, blockhead
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Stock parts, blockhead
Never tips over
Stands up on his own
He is a blockhead
Thinking man full grown
He comes well prepared
Cube top (Blockhead)
Squared-off (Blockhead)
Eight comers (Blockhead)
90 degree angles
Flat top (Blockhead)
Stares straight ahead (Blockhead)
Snake eyes (Blockhead)
Blockhead (Blockhead)
Cube top (Blockhead)
Squared-off (Blockhead)
Eight corners (Blockhead)
90 degree angles
Flat top (Blockhead)
Stares straight ahead (Blockhead)
Stock parts (Blockhead)
Blockhead (Blockhead)
Always pays on time
Always fits the bill
He comes well prepared
Cube top, squared-off
Eight corners, 90 degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Stock parts, blockhead
Never tips over
Stands up on his own
He is a blockhead
Thinking man full grown
He comes well prepared
Cube top, squared-off
Eight corners, 90 degree angles
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Snake eyes, blockhead
Flat top, stares straight ahead
Stock parts, blockhead
Never tips over
Stands up on his own
He is a blockhead
Thinking man full grown
He comes well prepared
Cube top (Blockhead)
Squared-off (Blockhead)
Eight comers (Blockhead)
90 degree angles
Flat top (Blockhead)
Stares straight ahead (Blockhead)
Snake eyes (Blockhead)
Blockhead (Blockhead)
Cube top (Blockhead)
Squared-off (Blockhead)
Eight corners (Blockhead)
90 degree angles
Flat top (Blockhead)
Stares straight ahead (Blockhead)
Stock parts (Blockhead)
Blockhead (Blockhead)
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Blockhead Lyrics as written by Mark Mothersbaugh Bob Mothersbaugh
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A blockhead is a moron. A boring , "never tips over" kinda person is one who has drunk the kool aid accepted the dull prime time life. Has his interests dictated to him/her by advertisers and pop culture icons and guru TV internet programming. That's it...perfectly programmed to not do anything but feed the monsters ie big Gov, Banks etc. Gives the 100% for twenty years and dies. Much like the Tubes' "...pretend we're in love and get married to her, have lots of children and grow fat and old, and die like a fish on the end of a pole.." Blockhead is everthing I cannot stand to be, I like to "Tip over" now and again.
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