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.
Until there was you we didn't know what to do but I don't give a fuck about the things that I blew. Sucker mc don't you love me, wanna have me, wanna que me, one two three. It's just a modest proposal from a boy anti-social, scraping the skin of our culture, civilized vulture. Do me in, don't make me sin, I'm doing so good I can't go through it again.
I bomb the mic like a fascist, Mussolini comin' through with no remorse, from the dark you won't see me. Rise up from the sea like a godzilla straight up through your mind with my armour plated drilla. I don't give a fuck what you think about this shit, ain't in it for the money never out to make a hit. If you can't take it like I said get a grip 'cause I'm here to fucking stay like the warts on your dick.
Stick 'em up.
So wont you make a man out of me, I've gotta be, connected computerized son of a bitch, makes me itch, sucker for life. I can't decide darkness or light or just a heavenly fright. Stick it, I'm tired I'm bored, I'm trying so hard and I can?t be adored. So the sound brakes through from one tone, gives me no choice I can't be alone. Stick 'em up
Like Darth Vader I surprise you with my skills
I knock your 'ol ass out like a bag of sleeping pills
I got to rip things up like my name was Jack the Ripper
There's a party at your house cause your mama is a stripper.
Slice through the scene like a knife through peanut butter
Get your ears cleaned out motherfucker I didn't stutter
S. W. A. R. E. Z! I got this whole thing right down to a T. Stick 'em up
I bomb the mic like a fascist, Mussolini comin' through with no remorse, from the dark you won't see me. Rise up from the sea like a godzilla straight up through your mind with my armour plated drilla. I don't give a fuck what you think about this shit, ain't in it for the money never out to make a hit. If you can't take it like I said get a grip 'cause I'm here to fucking stay like the warts on your dick.
Stick 'em up.
So wont you make a man out of me, I've gotta be, connected computerized son of a bitch, makes me itch, sucker for life. I can't decide darkness or light or just a heavenly fright. Stick it, I'm tired I'm bored, I'm trying so hard and I can?t be adored. So the sound brakes through from one tone, gives me no choice I can't be alone. Stick 'em up
Like Darth Vader I surprise you with my skills
I knock your 'ol ass out like a bag of sleeping pills
I got to rip things up like my name was Jack the Ripper
There's a party at your house cause your mama is a stripper.
Slice through the scene like a knife through peanut butter
Get your ears cleaned out motherfucker I didn't stutter
S. W. A. R. E. Z! I got this whole thing right down to a T. Stick 'em up
Lyrics submitted by justreed
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