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.
Wasted and wounded, erased with the night
One man's conviction is another man's lie
I said you could find me where the nighthawks fly
And I'll be there a while, yes I'll be there a while.
Dustpaper coupons, there's a guy by the door
He said: "What makes me quit makes you go back for more".
This place isn't real man, this girl is a whore
Watch me fall to the floor, but I'll go back for more.
Sometimes I wander
So I finally found you, and I lost you to love
No it sure wasn't this I was... thinkin' of
Put your silhouette on me and your sweetness above
And I can't get enough, no I can't get enough.
Wasted and wounded, this ain't no way to die
One man's cold turkey is another man's high
I said you could find me where the nighthawks fly
And I'll be there a while, yes I'll be there a while.
Sometimes I wander
Down on the floor, got a closer look at hell
You see, somebody pushed me, I just pretended that I fell.
I said that I adored you, but I could never tell
For all that I know I'll be gone when you go.
Music went through you and took you to a place
There ain't no doubt you'll find a welcoming embrace
I said that I loved you, another hawk in space
And you'll be there for a while and I'll be there for a while
Finding my own inarticulate prose
Weirding out strangers and laughing at those
Jaundiced and jaded postured and posed
Not that we're special, it's just that we're
Closing in on a place where we might get to be
Living real people regularly
Send you some stuff and be good like you asked
Must promise remember the sixth and the last
Thanks for anonymous invisible
Take us away
One man's conviction is another man's lie
I said you could find me where the nighthawks fly
And I'll be there a while, yes I'll be there a while.
Dustpaper coupons, there's a guy by the door
He said: "What makes me quit makes you go back for more".
This place isn't real man, this girl is a whore
Watch me fall to the floor, but I'll go back for more.
Sometimes I wander
So I finally found you, and I lost you to love
No it sure wasn't this I was... thinkin' of
Put your silhouette on me and your sweetness above
And I can't get enough, no I can't get enough.
Wasted and wounded, this ain't no way to die
One man's cold turkey is another man's high
I said you could find me where the nighthawks fly
And I'll be there a while, yes I'll be there a while.
Sometimes I wander
Down on the floor, got a closer look at hell
You see, somebody pushed me, I just pretended that I fell.
I said that I adored you, but I could never tell
For all that I know I'll be gone when you go.
Music went through you and took you to a place
There ain't no doubt you'll find a welcoming embrace
I said that I loved you, another hawk in space
And you'll be there for a while and I'll be there for a while
Finding my own inarticulate prose
Weirding out strangers and laughing at those
Jaundiced and jaded postured and posed
Not that we're special, it's just that we're
Closing in on a place where we might get to be
Living real people regularly
Send you some stuff and be good like you asked
Must promise remember the sixth and the last
Thanks for anonymous invisible
Take us away
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I love this song, but I can't quitte figure out what it's about eighter. Especially the part "Must promise remember the sixth and the last" makes me think it's one of their more personal songs.<br /> <br /> I love the metaphores like "Down on the floor, got a closer look at hell You see, somebody pushed me, I just pretended that I fell."
I really can't find any clear meaning to it, it feels more like the confused stuff you remember from a dream...
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So dEUS is currently touring and playing "The Ideal Crash" from beginning to end ;) I saw them in Luxemburg a couple days ago and Tom Barman said a few words before they played this song. (from my memory, and translated from french) "This song is about... when love is not going too well for you, and so you go out to find... other places... and other persons... but you don't always find them"
So basically I'd say it's the unclear thoughts and feeling of someone who is somewhat depressed, going out and drinking too much and associating with the wrong persons and doing stupid things... in hope of feeling better.