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.
Painted skies and shining stars
Reminds us of the hours we spent at the
Dining room table drawing pictures of nothing important
Everything we loved
And even though our fingers got sore and our eyes began to ache
We would never stop
We would never stop
It's these things created by tiny hands
That were hung on walls and wrapped as gifts (that)
Acted as the words we never said but wish we had before you left
It's too late to tell you that I care and I'm wishing you were here
And I think it would be better if you had never left at all
This place is not the same without the smile on your face
And if you were here then I would take you everywhere
Reminds us of the hours we spent at the
Dining room table drawing pictures of nothing important
Everything we loved
And even though our fingers got sore and our eyes began to ache
We would never stop
We would never stop
It's these things created by tiny hands
That were hung on walls and wrapped as gifts (that)
Acted as the words we never said but wish we had before you left
It's too late to tell you that I care and I'm wishing you were here
And I think it would be better if you had never left at all
This place is not the same without the smile on your face
And if you were here then I would take you everywhere
Lyrics submitted by PLANES, edited by thisiswater, CloudEater
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Ohh! I could listen to this song FOREVER! The guitar part near the end is rockin soso hard!!!!