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.
Quote, "you are my soul." unquote now does that sound familiar?
Kiss the boy and make him feel this way. Quote, "well this is me." unquote
You have been so ugly your entire life, so why change now?
Is this how you want to go down? right before my eyes, you are the saddest sight I know. You're quiet, you never make a sound but here inside my mind. You are the loudest one I know.
Quote, "We never talk." unquote and that's when I don't answer. Don't you dare ask why, because you don't want to know. Quote, "Well woe is me." unquote. How different I've become and no one understands, my dear, no one really cares.
Is this how you want to go down? right before my eyes, you are the saddest sight I know. You're quiet, you never make a sound but here inside my mind. You are the loudest one I know.
And you were right, right from the start it took everythign you had, but you finally broke my... and now the old things will pass away. I saw your light once, did you see mine? But not all things will pass away. You turned your light off, so I turned mine away from your sadness. away from the nothing that you feel for me.
Is this how you want to go down? right before my eyes, you are the saddest sight I know. You're quiet, you never make a sound but here inside my mind. You are the loudest one I know.
And you were right, right from the start it took everythign you had, but you finally broke my... quote. "Hey listen, 'cause I"ll only say this once... I finally found the words that mean enough to me...'Goodbye, my soul." unquote
Kiss the boy and make him feel this way. Quote, "well this is me." unquote
You have been so ugly your entire life, so why change now?
Is this how you want to go down? right before my eyes, you are the saddest sight I know. You're quiet, you never make a sound but here inside my mind. You are the loudest one I know.
Quote, "We never talk." unquote and that's when I don't answer. Don't you dare ask why, because you don't want to know. Quote, "Well woe is me." unquote. How different I've become and no one understands, my dear, no one really cares.
Is this how you want to go down? right before my eyes, you are the saddest sight I know. You're quiet, you never make a sound but here inside my mind. You are the loudest one I know.
And you were right, right from the start it took everythign you had, but you finally broke my... and now the old things will pass away. I saw your light once, did you see mine? But not all things will pass away. You turned your light off, so I turned mine away from your sadness. away from the nothing that you feel for me.
Is this how you want to go down? right before my eyes, you are the saddest sight I know. You're quiet, you never make a sound but here inside my mind. You are the loudest one I know.
And you were right, right from the start it took everythign you had, but you finally broke my... quote. "Hey listen, 'cause I"ll only say this once... I finally found the words that mean enough to me...'Goodbye, my soul." unquote
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stop is the song I wrote when I first started falling for this girl I was with, my love song for her, I wrote the "hey listen cuz I'll only say this once" line in reference to me only saying "I love you" one more time, like she was the last girl blah blah, well we ended up ending our relationship and I wrote quote, there was a lot of BS throughout the break up so I used the same line to bring the whole thing full circle and say that this time i was saying good bye "only once", the whole album works that way, every opposite song has to do with the other
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cross stop cold eclipsed beg over possession dark that follows promise quote tease
so cross and tease, stop and quote, cold and promise, eclipsed and dark, and then it takes a little detour and beg and over, possession doesnt count, I didnt write it
thats the deal with that
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