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.
Relax, it's over
You belong to me, I fill your mouth with dirt
(Hahaha)
Relax, it's over
You can never leave
I take your second digit with me, love
You are my first
I can barely breathe, I find you fascinating
You are my favorite
Lay you down to sleep
It's all that I can do to stop, love
So blue, so broken, paper doll decays
I haven't left you yet
So cold, subversive, your eyes are full of bleach
Tomorrow, I will go away again, love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love, love
Oh god, oh god
Oh god, oh god, no god
It makes us all one, tears us apart (shut up)
Tears us apart, it tears us apart (shut up)
Tears us apart (shut up, shut up)
It tears us apart
It cuts us up
It cuts us
It cuts us, it cuts us
It cuts us
You can't leave
You are mine
You will always be mine
I can tear you apart
I can recombine you
All I want is to covet you all
You belong to me
I will kill you to love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Do you, do you see? Do you see?
Do you see? Do you see?
My love
My, my, my love
Just you and I in love
Just you and through it all
It's you and I in love
It's you and I in love
It's you and I
Just you and I turned around
(My life) just you and I
It's you and I turned around
I can smell you all over me
I can smell you
I can smell you all over me
I can smell you all over me, hahaha, oh
I told you
I fucking told you
I told you
I fucking told you
You'll live forever
You'll live forever, hahaha
You will live forever
You will
You belong to me, I fill your mouth with dirt
(Hahaha)
Relax, it's over
You can never leave
I take your second digit with me, love
You are my first
I can barely breathe, I find you fascinating
You are my favorite
Lay you down to sleep
It's all that I can do to stop, love
So blue, so broken, paper doll decays
I haven't left you yet
So cold, subversive, your eyes are full of bleach
Tomorrow, I will go away again, love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love, love
Oh god, oh god
Oh god, oh god, no god
It makes us all one, tears us apart (shut up)
Tears us apart, it tears us apart (shut up)
Tears us apart (shut up, shut up)
It tears us apart
It cuts us up
It cuts us
It cuts us, it cuts us
It cuts us
You can't leave
You are mine
You will always be mine
I can tear you apart
I can recombine you
All I want is to covet you all
You belong to me
I will kill you to love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Love you
Do you, do you see? Do you see?
Do you see? Do you see?
My love
My, my, my love
Just you and I in love
Just you and through it all
It's you and I in love
It's you and I in love
It's you and I
Just you and I turned around
(My life) just you and I
It's you and I turned around
I can smell you all over me
I can smell you
I can smell you all over me
I can smell you all over me, hahaha, oh
I told you
I fucking told you
I told you
I fucking told you
You'll live forever
You'll live forever, hahaha
You will live forever
You will
Lyrics submitted by lemonie_fresh, edited by PurpleHaze96
Iowa Lyrics as written by Corey Taylor Christopher Fehn
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Good God, people. In an interview Corey said the song is about living in Iowa. How it can seem so bleak and desperate, like you could get stuck there forever. You people who drew sexual context out of it just need to get laid.
@adamizer erm the song is about murder and his first kill (blatantly Scarlett), the original was called Killers are Quiet so Corey just added a sprinkling of Corey-ography (hee in not even sorry for that ha), he was cutting himself in the booth with glass too and I'm pretty sure he doesn't hate Iowa that much lol, I get laid a lot and I can still tell you that he is giving his first kill with feelings of dark perversion :), well that's my take but I like it