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 can still recall the time
She said she was always mine
Then she left (as people do,)
And forgets what we've been through
(Does this sound familiar to you ?)
It's not that she's gone away
It's the things I hear she has got to say
About me - and about my friends
When we've got no defence.
That's her: I'll never believe her again.
She might have deceived all my friends
I know they will see in the end
What it all means when she says (Yeah!)
I want you back (She says)
But what's worse: She thinks it's true
But that's just her (She always was a little bit confused!)
She's not worth the time I had to lose.
She said she was always mine
Then she left (as people do,)
And forgets what we've been through
(Does this sound familiar to you ?)
It's not that she's gone away
It's the things I hear she has got to say
About me - and about my friends
When we've got no defence.
That's her: I'll never believe her again.
She might have deceived all my friends
I know they will see in the end
What it all means when she says (Yeah!)
I want you back (She says)
But what's worse: She thinks it's true
But that's just her (She always was a little bit confused!)
She's not worth the time I had to lose.
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This is a truly weird song about a heterosexual relationship by a homosexual