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.
Bop bop bop boodha bah da da
Bop bop bah da bah da
[Repeat]
[Chorus:]
There is a sand bar in your mind
Sand bar in the bay
Sand bar in your mind
Sand bar in the bay
There's a beach
Oh I hope it's not out of reach
It's very beautiful
Come my little peach
Together we'll go down to nude beach
Together we'll stroll on the sand
We'll stroll on the sand together
Where the air and the land meet forever
The sea, the land
A land of tan
We know a place where we are free
We throw our suits into the sea
[Chorus]
Bop bop bop boodha bah da da
Bop bop bah da bah da
[Repeat]
Please take my hand,
You are a woman
I am a man
This place is so remote, everything is revealed
It's so mysterious
Here I must stay forever
Together we'll go down to nude beach
Together we'll stroll on the sand
We'll stroll on the sand together
Where the air and the land meet forever
The sea, the sand
A land of tan
[Chorus]
Bop bop bah da bah da
[Repeat]
[Chorus:]
There is a sand bar in your mind
Sand bar in the bay
Sand bar in your mind
Sand bar in the bay
There's a beach
Oh I hope it's not out of reach
It's very beautiful
Come my little peach
Together we'll go down to nude beach
Together we'll stroll on the sand
We'll stroll on the sand together
Where the air and the land meet forever
The sea, the land
A land of tan
We know a place where we are free
We throw our suits into the sea
[Chorus]
Bop bop bop boodha bah da da
Bop bop bah da bah da
[Repeat]
Please take my hand,
You are a woman
I am a man
This place is so remote, everything is revealed
It's so mysterious
Here I must stay forever
Together we'll go down to nude beach
Together we'll stroll on the sand
We'll stroll on the sand together
Where the air and the land meet forever
The sea, the sand
A land of tan
[Chorus]
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A man wants to take his womanpartner to a nude beach and introduce her to the One Eyed Superhero