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'm desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm Closer to where I Started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me
Now I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There's nothing else to lose
There's nothing left to find
There is nothing in the world that can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
I'm desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer where I Started
I'm Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment here with you
Starving for truth
I'm Closer to where I Started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me
Now I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There's nothing else to lose
There's nothing left to find
There is nothing in the world that can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
I'm desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer where I Started
I'm Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm livin' for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure
Where to go?
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment here with you
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by fuelingfires
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why do people like you feel the right to rip up everyone else's beliefs? what is it to you if I or anyone else believes in God. Faith is an inherent characteristic of humanity.