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.
Restless days, sleepless nights
Our own world
Future pipe-dreams of making it out alive
Crank up the music,live the lyrics cuz it feels so right
Roll up to the party to get it started
We'd all lose control
40 oz. of Mickey's and a Hornet
Passed out by the bowl
Picked up where we left off the night before
From show to show
Giving just once chance you know we'd take it and we'd lose control
Let's take a walk down memory lane
Let's talk a ride and try to see where we've all been
Its been so long and everything's changed
Here's to the days, let's take em' back and live again
Band kids, skaters, punks, stoners, mods, and skins
Out by the flagpole, smokers lot, tying up your friends again
Skipping class, living fast, dying just to live
There's nothing that could stop us we we're
Dying just to live through these
Sleepless days, restless nights
Our own world
Future pipe-dreams of making it out alive
Crank up the music and watch it roll as we'd all lose control
Our own world
Future pipe-dreams of making it out alive
Crank up the music,live the lyrics cuz it feels so right
Roll up to the party to get it started
We'd all lose control
40 oz. of Mickey's and a Hornet
Passed out by the bowl
Picked up where we left off the night before
From show to show
Giving just once chance you know we'd take it and we'd lose control
Let's take a walk down memory lane
Let's talk a ride and try to see where we've all been
Its been so long and everything's changed
Here's to the days, let's take em' back and live again
Band kids, skaters, punks, stoners, mods, and skins
Out by the flagpole, smokers lot, tying up your friends again
Skipping class, living fast, dying just to live
There's nothing that could stop us we we're
Dying just to live through these
Sleepless days, restless nights
Our own world
Future pipe-dreams of making it out alive
Crank up the music and watch it roll as we'd all lose control
Lyrics submitted by acidmaniac
Memory Lane Lyrics as written by Jason Devore Bill Marcks
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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.."40 oz. of Mickey's and a Hornet Passed out by the bowl" Ha. Yup.