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.
So deep that it didn't even bleed and catch me
Off guard, red-handed, now I'm far from lonely
Asleep I still see you lying next to me
So deep that it didn't even bleed and catch me I
I need something else
Would someone please just give me
Hit me, knock me out and let me go back to sleep
I can laugh all I want, inside I still am empty
So deep that it didn't even bleed and catch me I
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
(All that I've got)
I guess, I remember every glance you shot me
Unharmed, I'm losing weight and some body heat
I squoze so hard I stopped your heart from beating
So deep that I didn't even scream, fuck me, I
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
(All that I've got, all that I've got)
And it's all that I've got
Yeah, it's all that I've got
It's all that I've got
It's all that I've got
It's all that I've got
So deep that it didn't even bleed and catch me
So deep that I didn't even scream, fuck me
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
And it's all that I've got
Yeah, it's all that I've got
Off guard, red-handed, now I'm far from lonely
Asleep I still see you lying next to me
So deep that it didn't even bleed and catch me I
I need something else
Would someone please just give me
Hit me, knock me out and let me go back to sleep
I can laugh all I want, inside I still am empty
So deep that it didn't even bleed and catch me I
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
(All that I've got)
I guess, I remember every glance you shot me
Unharmed, I'm losing weight and some body heat
I squoze so hard I stopped your heart from beating
So deep that I didn't even scream, fuck me, I
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
(All that I've got, all that I've got)
And it's all that I've got
Yeah, it's all that I've got
It's all that I've got
It's all that I've got
It's all that I've got
So deep that it didn't even bleed and catch me
So deep that I didn't even scream, fuck me
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got
And it's all that I've got
Yeah, it's all that I've got
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