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.
Calling all vampire bats
Unhook your mitts from the meals
Calling all circling sharks
All roads will lead to the seals
I beg all bumbling bees
Turn against their keepers and sting
All the honey that's running its blood due
The smoke's a joke I keep playing on you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
Your money or your life
Your money or your life
Summon the chess pieces up
Growing ill of being picked up
By the loon, assuming it suits you
Like your false teeth they're going with you
Like all the millions of fat, hateful children
We are tubes with holes at the ending
I don't need you to love my soul
I need you to love my body, you know
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
Your money or your life
Your money or your life
Oh my dear just meet me here
When the comet hits our atmosphere
Like burning circus tents signal our ascent
We visualize what we hope appears
Are you with me? Are you with me?
Will you follow through?
'Cause dare I force my awkward body right on top of you
Onto you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
Your money or your life
Your money or your life
All neutrinos inside electrons
All electrons inside the protons
All the protons inside the atoms
All the atoms inside the ion
All the ions make up the tidy
Every blood cell in my body
My body lumbers the planet
In a universe that is expanding
Outside the fear I can't fathom
We are inside another atom
I'm part of the sun, I married the moon
My brother: the comet
Unhook your mitts from the meals
Calling all circling sharks
All roads will lead to the seals
I beg all bumbling bees
Turn against their keepers and sting
All the honey that's running its blood due
The smoke's a joke I keep playing on you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
Your money or your life
Your money or your life
Summon the chess pieces up
Growing ill of being picked up
By the loon, assuming it suits you
Like your false teeth they're going with you
Like all the millions of fat, hateful children
We are tubes with holes at the ending
I don't need you to love my soul
I need you to love my body, you know
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
Your money or your life
Your money or your life
Oh my dear just meet me here
When the comet hits our atmosphere
Like burning circus tents signal our ascent
We visualize what we hope appears
Are you with me? Are you with me?
Will you follow through?
'Cause dare I force my awkward body right on top of you
Onto you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
No one's gonna save you
Your money or your life
Your money or your life
All neutrinos inside electrons
All electrons inside the protons
All the protons inside the atoms
All the atoms inside the ion
All the ions make up the tidy
Every blood cell in my body
My body lumbers the planet
In a universe that is expanding
Outside the fear I can't fathom
We are inside another atom
I'm part of the sun, I married the moon
My brother: the comet
Lyrics submitted by sweetsomethings, edited by Supertilt
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I think the song is from the perspective of nature, calling for revenge on humanity by all the dangerous animals.