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.
Sick of being me
Maybe I drink too much to think
Maybe I think too much to see (fuck me)
Going home after another friday night
Can't see the skyline because the fog has taken it all away
Think about the friends I had growing up
How they were there for me
Now we've gone our own ways
I know that it'll never be that way again
It'll never be the same
My old friends are just a memory
Wish I was young again
Doing stupid things with my friends
Seems like as the years go by life gets more and more crazy
Like I think back to that night when my sister tried to take her life
I don't know how much more of that I could take
If it were only a dream
How I would just wake up and she would be okay
Do they all feel the same?
Wonder if they remember those days
I know that everything has to change
Nothing ever stays the same
This place isn't what it used to be
Hope they haven't forgotten about me
Maybe I drink too much to think
Maybe I think too much to see (fuck me)
Going home after another friday night
Can't see the skyline because the fog has taken it all away
Think about the friends I had growing up
How they were there for me
Now we've gone our own ways
I know that it'll never be that way again
It'll never be the same
My old friends are just a memory
Wish I was young again
Doing stupid things with my friends
Seems like as the years go by life gets more and more crazy
Like I think back to that night when my sister tried to take her life
I don't know how much more of that I could take
If it were only a dream
How I would just wake up and she would be okay
Do they all feel the same?
Wonder if they remember those days
I know that everything has to change
Nothing ever stays the same
This place isn't what it used to be
Hope they haven't forgotten about me
Lyrics submitted by brokenpromisering
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