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.
This is the daybreak
And this is the love we make
For love is the law here
You got to know how I love it, yeah
It's more than a mover
You know it takes all fast, all song
Stone cold wild
Bring the love in son, brother, man
True nature child
I think I'll sing it
For Atlanta Georgia
To Longsight Manchester
Everyone ready
So, so willing and able, yeah, yeah, yeah
For the love you make
Go no sis, huh, yeah, woo
Yeah, yeah, yeah
She built it to make ya
We all love makers, ain't we
Sister Rosa Lee parks
Love forever her name in your heart
Forever in my heart
Woo, hey
As I sing on this song
Someone just got rolled on
Hey, oh hey, yeah, woo, yeah
New York City to Addis Ababababa
Keep on keeping strong
Keep on keeping on
So why no stack for black
On a radio station in this, the city
Been going on so long
Level on the line, I'm a leaf on the vine of time
Black bones are the original bones
And so this is the whole wide world should know, y'all
I came to sing this song in your city
Ooh, for the dreamers
One more for the dreamers, yeah
And this is the love we make
For love is the law here
You got to know how I love it, yeah
It's more than a mover
You know it takes all fast, all song
Stone cold wild
Bring the love in son, brother, man
True nature child
I think I'll sing it
For Atlanta Georgia
To Longsight Manchester
Everyone ready
So, so willing and able, yeah, yeah, yeah
For the love you make
Go no sis, huh, yeah, woo
Yeah, yeah, yeah
She built it to make ya
We all love makers, ain't we
Sister Rosa Lee parks
Love forever her name in your heart
Forever in my heart
Woo, hey
As I sing on this song
Someone just got rolled on
Hey, oh hey, yeah, woo, yeah
New York City to Addis Ababababa
Keep on keeping strong
Keep on keeping on
So why no stack for black
On a radio station in this, the city
Been going on so long
Level on the line, I'm a leaf on the vine of time
Black bones are the original bones
And so this is the whole wide world should know, y'all
I came to sing this song in your city
Ooh, for the dreamers
One more for the dreamers, yeah
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A pretty laid bak tune from the Roses. Seems in parts to be talking bout racism - Atlanta, Rosa Parks, No stack for Black