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.
Watch the stars turn you to nothing
Now blush and smile as they whisk you away
Part your lips a bit more, I'll swallow your fear
I will show you how
All the bite marks impress
A need to be here
A need to see...
City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts
Velvet burns the wrists while restraining
You blushed and smiled and you said you would stay
One more time steal my breath, I'll feed you the sky
I will show you how
Steal the glamour from death and before you die
Oh you should see
City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts
"We all want to die like movie stars," you said as you jumped from the height of our cutting room floor while above us, glowing, exploding, our dreams burst forth in light and death. Hold me and tell me "We'll burn like stars. We'll burn as we fall. Watch as city lights dance for us."
City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts
Now blush and smile as they whisk you away
Part your lips a bit more, I'll swallow your fear
I will show you how
All the bite marks impress
A need to be here
A need to see...
City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts
Velvet burns the wrists while restraining
You blushed and smiled and you said you would stay
One more time steal my breath, I'll feed you the sky
I will show you how
Steal the glamour from death and before you die
Oh you should see
City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts
"We all want to die like movie stars," you said as you jumped from the height of our cutting room floor while above us, glowing, exploding, our dreams burst forth in light and death. Hold me and tell me "We'll burn like stars. We'll burn as we fall. Watch as city lights dance for us."
City lights, like rain
Dance and explode
Fall upon debutants
Reeling from nights that
Kiss and control
All of our broken hearts
Lyrics submitted by Word_up
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amazing song. the best part is by far, "'now i wanna die like movie stars,' you said. as you jumped from the height of our cuttingroom floor. while above us glowing, exploding, our dreams burst forth in light and death. hold me and tell me we'll burn like stars, we'll burn as we fall. watch as city lights trasform us..."