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.
I think it's time that everyone should know, that im not that boy i used to be. And i dont care if you look down on me, the way it used to be, well things have changed, I'm not the same. The way that it was that day. And you dont know, will i stay or will i goo? Remember the times we spent just hangin out, when we figure out who we were and where we go. We made the best of things and never thought that this would all soon change and never be the way that it was that day, and you dont know where i stand or where im goin. When you look at how things have changed, couldn't even try to comprehend. Remember when we all sat closely? Times like that will always stay the same. Remember the times we spent just hangin out, when we figure out who we are and where we go. Well i dont know where your going, go on ahead,, i'll meet you there. and i dont know where your going, go on ahead, go on ahead. The way that it was that day and you dont know will i stay where im going?
Lyrics submitted by LulusXe
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