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.
Everybody needs somebody to abuse
Everybody needs a lotta stuff to eat
Everybody gonna be a body one day
Having fun? (mortal scum)
Rest assured it's not for long
When you least expect your world reels
You fall to the ground
Will heaven protect it?
(No) A strange new world that you found
And now, bodies waken
Soul a-quakin', you see your jellied corpse a-bakin'
Your world teeters on the brink of madness
We shall kick that bitch over with gladness
You enter the sex plague
You cannot breed
And you await death
Your anus bleeds
When you're all dead
We'll still be here
Having butt sex
Cause I'm so queer!
Disciples of sin!
Everybody needs a lotta stuff to eat
Everybody gonna be a body one day
Having fun? (mortal scum)
Rest assured it's not for long
When you least expect your world reels
You fall to the ground
Will heaven protect it?
(No) A strange new world that you found
And now, bodies waken
Soul a-quakin', you see your jellied corpse a-bakin'
Your world teeters on the brink of madness
We shall kick that bitch over with gladness
You enter the sex plague
You cannot breed
And you await death
Your anus bleeds
When you're all dead
We'll still be here
Having butt sex
Cause I'm so queer!
Disciples of sin!
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death, edited by madscijr
Captain Crunch Lyrics as written by Gwar Gwar
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More sardonic fun, ridiculing the lazy and superstitious masses of Earth who fail to recognize their own complicity in the plight they are born into and passively and blindly wallow in. Wake up!