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.
The clever make the world weary
To pull it from its moorings
To fawn the young wicked roost
To weather the coming storms
They are inside now
They are inside
They are inside now
Saturnine
How I love to waste your time
Saturnine
Saturnine
Goodbye all you widows
Tearstained underneath
Blessed to the many
Who are seeking some relief
They are inside
They are inside now
They are inside
They are inside
You'll always run
But you cannot find
Saturnine
Saturnine
Saturnine
You were waiting all this time
Saturnine
Saturnine
Camera take this picture
The wreckage is outside
Quick may you hurry
We are losing our light
We are inside now
We are inside
We are inside
You'll always run
But you'll never find
Saturnine
Saturnine
How I'd love to make you mine
Saturnine
Saturnine
To the ages I am speaking
To the creatures I am sky
Bloody simple features
Everyone chooses sides
Shatter this faith broken
Walk these summer miles
Leave here while forgotten
Carrying forth this child
Saturnine
To pull it from its moorings
To fawn the young wicked roost
To weather the coming storms
They are inside now
They are inside
They are inside now
Saturnine
How I love to waste your time
Saturnine
Saturnine
Goodbye all you widows
Tearstained underneath
Blessed to the many
Who are seeking some relief
They are inside
They are inside now
They are inside
They are inside
You'll always run
But you cannot find
Saturnine
Saturnine
Saturnine
You were waiting all this time
Saturnine
Saturnine
Camera take this picture
The wreckage is outside
Quick may you hurry
We are losing our light
We are inside now
We are inside
We are inside
You'll always run
But you'll never find
Saturnine
Saturnine
How I'd love to make you mine
Saturnine
Saturnine
To the ages I am speaking
To the creatures I am sky
Bloody simple features
Everyone chooses sides
Shatter this faith broken
Walk these summer miles
Leave here while forgotten
Carrying forth this child
Saturnine
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i believe there are two versions of this song, an adore era version, and a machina era version. i think they have different lyrics.
i really really love this song...it's almost like eye...it's beautiful in a strange sense...the lyrics to the second verse are wrong though...it's supposed to be "goodbye all you antidotes... tearstain on the name... glass into the vein while seeking some relief"
yeah, the version these lyrics are from is the earlier adore version. the version that is on the greatest hits cd has different lyrics, but they are the same song. and the song rules. anyways, that's what i think...
Billy has written many songs with multiple versions
rockstar001, what's your source for those lyrics? i don't hear that in either version of this song. By the way spfc.org is the best site for pumpkin lyrics out there.
For anyone who doesn't know the word saturnine is a real word that revolves around the idea that that planet saturn hypnotizes people
I think this song deal with the situation of all people that haven't a real position in this life.This persons have no idea of time(we are losing time)(we are losing mind.) People how search answers in the future will never be happy.Camera take this picture(do we need a picture to remember?).You 'll always cried because you'll never have a real answer.There's no answer in this world.
actually a saturnine is a person who is meloncholic, sullen and bitter supposedly due to being born under the astrological influence of the planest saturn (check the dictionary)
sorry, thats ment to say planet not planest!
I'm surprised this isn't noted as an 'alternate version' on Machina II - the original version is the Adore outtake that appears on judas O. (apparently what looks like an 'O' with a line thru it [as with the title of that album] is pronounced like the 'i' in 'bird'. Interesting, eh?)
I think that, since it is not noted as an alternate version this version should be referred to as 'Satur9', as it is, I believe, listed as that on some sites, whereas the Adore-era version is always spelled 'Saturnine'.
Oh, and it's one of my favourite tracks on Machina II. I'm not sure which version I prefer.