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 was sitting in traffic for the fifth year in a row
Wasting my time just to get where I don't even want to go
I started jotting things down on a Krispy Kreme sack
Everything I'd do if I could leave this place and never look back
I wanna do it all, visit Paris in the fall
Watch the Yankees play ball, I wanna take it all in
Catch a few beads down at Mardi Gras
Start a tradition, lay down the law, I wanna do it all
I wanna drink tequila down in Tijuana
Say why not when somebody says hey do you wanna
I wanna get my heart broke once or twice
Then settle down with the love of my life
Rock little babies to sleep at night
I wanna do it all, visit Paris in the fall
Watch the Yankees play ball, I wanna take it all in
Catch a few beads down at Mardi Gras
Start a tradition, lay down the law, I wanna do it all
I wanna do it all, see Niagra Falls
Fight city hall, feel good in my skin
Beating the odds with my back to the wall
Tryin' to Rob Peter without paying Paul, I wanna do it all
I wanna spend a day every now and then doin' what I wanna do
When I wanna do it (I wanna do it all)
Anytime I wana do it (I wanna do it all)
I just wanna
I wanna do it all, visit Paris in the fall
Watch the Yankees play ball, I wanna take it all in
Catch a few beads down at Mardi Gras
Start a tradition, lay down the law, I wanna do it all
I wanna do it all, stand on the Great Wall
Play Carnegie Hall, wanna learn how to live
Like Cinderella, the Belle o' the Ball
Make my movie with my baby doll, I wanna do it all
Wasting my time just to get where I don't even want to go
I started jotting things down on a Krispy Kreme sack
Everything I'd do if I could leave this place and never look back
I wanna do it all, visit Paris in the fall
Watch the Yankees play ball, I wanna take it all in
Catch a few beads down at Mardi Gras
Start a tradition, lay down the law, I wanna do it all
I wanna drink tequila down in Tijuana
Say why not when somebody says hey do you wanna
I wanna get my heart broke once or twice
Then settle down with the love of my life
Rock little babies to sleep at night
I wanna do it all, visit Paris in the fall
Watch the Yankees play ball, I wanna take it all in
Catch a few beads down at Mardi Gras
Start a tradition, lay down the law, I wanna do it all
I wanna do it all, see Niagra Falls
Fight city hall, feel good in my skin
Beating the odds with my back to the wall
Tryin' to Rob Peter without paying Paul, I wanna do it all
I wanna spend a day every now and then doin' what I wanna do
When I wanna do it (I wanna do it all)
Anytime I wana do it (I wanna do it all)
I just wanna
I wanna do it all, visit Paris in the fall
Watch the Yankees play ball, I wanna take it all in
Catch a few beads down at Mardi Gras
Start a tradition, lay down the law, I wanna do it all
I wanna do it all, stand on the Great Wall
Play Carnegie Hall, wanna learn how to live
Like Cinderella, the Belle o' the Ball
Make my movie with my baby doll, I wanna do it all
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I can definetely relat to this song. The person is bored of wasting their time everyday to work and back again. Life is just passing them by. She dreams of what she wants to do instead. Instead of dreaming of it though, we all need to take a chance and live our lives to their fullest , do what we wanna do, go where we want to go.
That's right! Need to take a chance and when you fly too close to the sun and you come screaming back down to Earth like a comet,then at least you know you tried. ;)