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.
Three years and now I feel like completeness has set in 'cause it's something to keep time with time and I know it's not true that I can't keep on like this 'cause I know I feel right and I don't think I miss a thing and I remember when I heard that song sing, "if the world doesn't understand then the world has to learn" and maybe that's true but not everyone has to- when ten million people all believe in the same thing how could they be wrong and what is sometimes there's a weight on my head but I know I feel right
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i was going to say it was about religion thinking i was smart after all these people thinking relationship songs are all STD writes. But Onlyalive4tonite got to it first.
"when ten million people all believe in the same thing how could they be wrong and what is sometimes?"
that line speaks loudest to my opinion on what this song means.