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.
Show me Show me Show Me how you do that trick the one that makes me scream," she said
"the one that makes me laugh," she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you
I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you."
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face i kissed her neck
dream of all the different ways
I had to make her glow.
"Why are you so far away?" she said,
"Oh won't you ever know,
That I'm in love with you,
That I'm in love with you?"
you
soft and only
you
lost and loney
strange as angels
dancing in the deepest water
twisting in the water
your just like a dream
just like a dream
Daylight whipped me into shape.
Must've been asleep for days
moving lips to breathe her name,
I opened up my eyes.
And found myself alone, alone
alone above a raging sea
that stole the only girl i loved
and drowned her deep inside of me
you
lost and only
you
soft and only
you
Just like heaven
"the one that makes me laugh," she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you
I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you."
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face i kissed her neck
dream of all the different ways
I had to make her glow.
"Why are you so far away?" she said,
"Oh won't you ever know,
That I'm in love with you,
That I'm in love with you?"
you
soft and only
you
lost and loney
strange as angels
dancing in the deepest water
twisting in the water
your just like a dream
just like a dream
Daylight whipped me into shape.
Must've been asleep for days
moving lips to breathe her name,
I opened up my eyes.
And found myself alone, alone
alone above a raging sea
that stole the only girl i loved
and drowned her deep inside of me
you
lost and only
you
soft and only
you
Just like heaven
Lyrics submitted by SaveJake
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"the benjamins" did also a cover version of it, surely not the ataris