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.
[lyrics - Shuldiner, music - Shuldiner/Rozz]
Freedom is just
A breath away
Will you live
To see the day
As the heat
Intensifies
You start to choke
Your insides fry
Seizure now sets in
Torture will begin
Twisted bodies lie
Waiting now to die
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
Screaming fills
Your frenzied mind
No way out
No more time
Example made
From those to see
Your freedom turned
To misery
World is all around
Of what they have found
Lesson to be learned
You will not return
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
Freedom is just
A breath away
Will you live
To see the day
As the heat
Intensifies
You start to choke
Your insides fry
Seizure now sets in
Torture will begin
Twisted bodies lie
Waiting now to die
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
Screaming fills
Your frenzied mind
No way out
No more time
Example made
From those to see
Your freedom turned
To misery
World is all around
Of what they have found
Lesson to be learned
You will not return
Choke on it
As your tongue goes down
Choke on it
Death is all around
Lyrics submitted by MDMaster
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This song is about a pot of marmalade called Gerald who decides to plunder pirate ships for booty. He is very sucessful at this hobby and takes it up as a full-time job. He works his way up from smaller vessels to the grandest of all ships: The Five Year Old's In The Bin. He encounters a Puma on the ship which he defeats by making it eat red paint. He sails on on the Five Year Old's In The Bin until the sea turrns viscous and he is stranded and eventually dies from an exploding mongoose.