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.
Praying hands grasp a throat
Searching for a song they wrote
Heater just won't warm a frozen spirit
Just a man with a cause
No reward and no applause
If there was a call he did not hear it
Tiny hero fighting big battles
Mind of stone breaks and rattles
The only thing I need kiss my disease
And make it all better
Clean me when I bleed justify me
Make words of my scattered lettters
Hunger pains take control
Growling at the tired soul
When the body just won't meet the
demands
Growing older growing weak
Going nowhere future's bleak
Need another spark to fire up the plan
Tiny hero fighting big battles
Mind of stone overcomes the rattles
The only thing I need kiss my disease
And make it all better
Clean me when I bleed justify me
Make words of my scattered lettters
Searching for a song they wrote
Heater just won't warm a frozen spirit
Just a man with a cause
No reward and no applause
If there was a call he did not hear it
Tiny hero fighting big battles
Mind of stone breaks and rattles
The only thing I need kiss my disease
And make it all better
Clean me when I bleed justify me
Make words of my scattered lettters
Hunger pains take control
Growling at the tired soul
When the body just won't meet the
demands
Growing older growing weak
Going nowhere future's bleak
Need another spark to fire up the plan
Tiny hero fighting big battles
Mind of stone overcomes the rattles
The only thing I need kiss my disease
And make it all better
Clean me when I bleed justify me
Make words of my scattered lettters
Lyrics submitted by creedspazz
Kiss My Disease Lyrics as written by Chris Dickerson Brett Hestla
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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the best song in the album. but the meaning of the song... beats me...