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 dig the black girls, oh so much more than the white girls.
I was so pleased to learn they were faster.
C'est, c'est, c'est vous I'm after.
All comes a faggot white boy
Said look, look, look first kind of joy.
They come around so queer and quiet,
as I rebel and riot.
Shall I dig the white boys?
Oh so much more that the black boys
I was so pleased to learn they're not smarter.
Go on, give, give, give it to me harder, harder, harder, just say it, harder.
You know I love the Lord of hosts,
the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.
I was so pleased to learn that he's inside me
In my time of trouble he will hide me.
I dig the black girls.
I dig the black girls.
I dig the black girls.
I dig the black girls.
I was so pleased to learn they were faster.
C'est, c'est, c'est vous I'm after.
All comes a faggot white boy
Said look, look, look first kind of joy.
They come around so queer and quiet,
as I rebel and riot.
Shall I dig the white boys?
Oh so much more that the black boys
I was so pleased to learn they're not smarter.
Go on, give, give, give it to me harder, harder, harder, just say it, harder.
You know I love the Lord of hosts,
the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.
I was so pleased to learn that he's inside me
In my time of trouble he will hide me.
I dig the black girls.
I dig the black girls.
I dig the black girls.
I dig the black girls.
Lyrics submitted by Chiisushi
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The juxtaposition of the last verse with the subject matter of the rest of the song is pretty bizarre, but it kind of fits in with their general tendency to veer lyrically from sexual lust to seemingly sincere christian sentiment (look at say, "36 24 36", then look at "Jesus Walking On THe Water").