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.
Hell
Burning, now I bring you hell
Oh burning, now I bring you hell
Lead me tonight
When the warnings said leave a shudder upon you
Running from all that you feared in your life
Soul of the night
When the sun mislead, paint a horror upon you
Marking the moment, displaying in my ghost of a life
And I can't condone the way you left me out in the open
To leave me to die
So how can I forget the way you led me through the path into heaven
To leave me behind?
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning, now I bring you hell
Oh, burning, now I bring you hell
Free me tonight
Lest the animal, caged, be a terror upon you
Caught in the moment, engaging in my bloodlust tonight
Now I can't control my venom's flow
Get back from me demon, or be exorcised
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning, now I bring you hell
All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you've taken from me
All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you've taken from me
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Soul of the night, I know
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning, now I bring you hell
Oh, burning, now I bring you hell
Oh, burning, now I bring you hell
Burning, now I bring you hell
Oh burning, now I bring you hell
Lead me tonight
When the warnings said leave a shudder upon you
Running from all that you feared in your life
Soul of the night
When the sun mislead, paint a horror upon you
Marking the moment, displaying in my ghost of a life
And I can't condone the way you left me out in the open
To leave me to die
So how can I forget the way you led me through the path into heaven
To leave me behind?
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning, now I bring you hell
Oh, burning, now I bring you hell
Free me tonight
Lest the animal, caged, be a terror upon you
Caught in the moment, engaging in my bloodlust tonight
Now I can't control my venom's flow
Get back from me demon, or be exorcised
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning, now I bring you hell
All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you've taken from me
All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you've taken from me
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Soul of the night, I know
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
To killing more than I can tell
Burning, now I bring you hell
Oh, burning, now I bring you hell
Oh, burning, now I bring you hell
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I agree, Its about a relationship with somebody who keeps on coming back into your life, and leaving as well. Everytime this happens, they fuck your world up.