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 got the light thru the window
you've got the alcohol
i'm on the here and now
you're on the year before
i'm on a steady diet of really being here
you got a list of rules that makes things disappear
i see the moon in texas
you see a bar that's dark
i want a revolution
you wanna make your mark
but it's not guilt that i want or punishment i see
the world reorganized now in terms of people's needs
maybe tonite
we could bring the fuck into the light
maybe tonite
i can see that i don't wanna die
maybe when i turn myself away
every little thing you said
i wanna throw it all into the bay
you've got the alcohol
i'm on the here and now
you're on the year before
i'm on a steady diet of really being here
you got a list of rules that makes things disappear
i see the moon in texas
you see a bar that's dark
i want a revolution
you wanna make your mark
but it's not guilt that i want or punishment i see
the world reorganized now in terms of people's needs
maybe tonite
we could bring the fuck into the light
maybe tonite
i can see that i don't wanna die
maybe when i turn myself away
every little thing you said
i wanna throw it all into the bay
Lyrics submitted by riotkitten
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I may be WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out in left field here, but it sounds as though she left alcohol behind and doesn't wish to return to it or its negative effects (re: the 2nd and 3rd lines). The last stanza would substantiate that. (Although if I'm incorrect about my initial statement than it substantiates nothing:) Oh well.