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.
T.V. tries to sell me stuff that I don't really need
The government hypocrisy is intertwined with greed
All I need now is another media blitz
About Jesus down in Waco and the odor he emits
Whoa
Fuck world trade
Fuck the state
The trade center is bombed and the FBI is pissed
So they act the good Americans, blaming Muslim terrorists
People so brainwashed caught up in the media TV
So quick to pull the trigger claiming they are guilty
Whoa fuck world trade
Fuck the state
McDonald's will bloom as the major competition
Between Jesus and the devil for this governments religion
People so caught up in the freedom that they see
While America's fucking over every single country
Whoa
Fuck world trade
Fuck the state
Fuck America
The government hypocrisy is intertwined with greed
All I need now is another media blitz
About Jesus down in Waco and the odor he emits
Whoa
Fuck world trade
Fuck the state
The trade center is bombed and the FBI is pissed
So they act the good Americans, blaming Muslim terrorists
People so brainwashed caught up in the media TV
So quick to pull the trigger claiming they are guilty
Whoa fuck world trade
Fuck the state
McDonald's will bloom as the major competition
Between Jesus and the devil for this governments religion
People so caught up in the freedom that they see
While America's fucking over every single country
Whoa
Fuck world trade
Fuck the state
Fuck America
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Patriotism is loyalty to your fellow humans, nation-states be damned. I am a true patriot, so is Choking Victim.
America is built from the ground-up on the bodies and the graves of black and brown people, families, and communities. No matter where you are in America, you are standing on stolen land.
All war is civil war. For as long as we allow rich men to send us to fight each other for their profit interests, we will never be free. If we allow ourselves to be divided, we are allowing ourselves to be conquered.
Fuck America, fuck borders and fuck nations. Class war now