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.
Compassion no more, the angel sleeps in her blood
Guilt will ruin, you rest no more
I will always watch, until the last church is burned
Until the guilty drown in blood
Until your preachers of filth cease to be
Everyday I hope, I hope that your end will bring a better day
Fuck your god, your god of shit
Our sin will send the death we wish upon you
For the families you've broken
For the lies you have ruined
We burn the last of you down
Now you will receive us
We do not ask for your poor, or for your hungry
We don't want your tired and sick
It is your corrupt we claim
It is your evil that will be sought by us
With every breath we shall hunt them down everyday
We will spill their blood till it bleeds down from the sky
Now you will receive us, receive the arsonist
Guilt will ruin, you rest no more
I will always watch, until the last church is burned
Until the guilty drown in blood
Until your preachers of filth cease to be
Everyday I hope, I hope that your end will bring a better day
Fuck your god, your god of shit
Our sin will send the death we wish upon you
For the families you've broken
For the lies you have ruined
We burn the last of you down
Now you will receive us
We do not ask for your poor, or for your hungry
We don't want your tired and sick
It is your corrupt we claim
It is your evil that will be sought by us
With every breath we shall hunt them down everyday
We will spill their blood till it bleeds down from the sky
Now you will receive us, receive the arsonist
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
Arsonist Lyrics as written by Thomas Giles Rogers Paul Andrew Waggoner
Lyrics © BTBAM PUBLISHING
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Between The Buried And Me = perfect.