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.
Oh high noon dead moon
A hangin' all over you yeah
Devil man yes
I can cut a little piece of you yeah
Hunger! Inside you
Hunger!
Hunger! Destroy you
Hunger!
Swift might dead night
That's all right for you yeah
Voodoo man yes
I can tear it all down for you yeah
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Spookshow Baby!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Yeah Spookshow Baby!
Red rain no pain
Fallin' down over you yeah
Wicked man yes
I can a walking all over you yeah
Hunger! Inside you
Hunger!
Hunger! Destroy you
Hunger!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Spookshow Baby!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Yeah Spookshow Baby!
Bright glove, mad love
A movin' all over you yeah
Psycho man yes
I can do it all over for you yeah
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Spookshow Baby!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Yeah Spookshow Baby!
A hangin' all over you yeah
Devil man yes
I can cut a little piece of you yeah
Hunger! Inside you
Hunger!
Hunger! Destroy you
Hunger!
Swift might dead night
That's all right for you yeah
Voodoo man yes
I can tear it all down for you yeah
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Spookshow Baby!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Yeah Spookshow Baby!
Red rain no pain
Fallin' down over you yeah
Wicked man yes
I can a walking all over you yeah
Hunger! Inside you
Hunger!
Hunger! Destroy you
Hunger!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Spookshow Baby!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Yeah Spookshow Baby!
Bright glove, mad love
A movin' all over you yeah
Psycho man yes
I can do it all over for you yeah
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Spookshow Baby!
She's a killer!
She's a thriller!
Yeah Spookshow Baby!
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To me it seems to suggest that a man has the "hunger" for some girl. But the girl is no good for him (or men), as she is a bit of a "man eater". She will use them and spit them out ... "she is a killer" to me implies she is not literally going to kill you but she is going to make you feel like death after she is done with you.