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.
If you wait
If I could ask you to wait
I'd get back, somehow
To you
If I could ask you to wait
I'll bring myself
Home to you
I would walk on this road
Through mud, through grass, through dust, through rain
Whatever I find in my way
I'll power through
I'll power through
Home to you
If you wait
If I could ask you to wait
But I can't ask you to wait
Though it breaks me:
Go
I must ask you to go
Go
I must ask you to go
Please go
(I must ask you to go)
If I could ask you to wait
I'd get back, somehow
To you
If I could ask you to wait
I'll bring myself
Home to you
I would walk on this road
Through mud, through grass, through dust, through rain
Whatever I find in my way
I'll power through
I'll power through
Home to you
If you wait
If I could ask you to wait
But I can't ask you to wait
Though it breaks me:
Go
I must ask you to go
Go
I must ask you to go
Please go
(I must ask you to go)
Lyrics submitted by Metropolis
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Could this be about asking for a loved one to await for your return? That return could be literally (perhaps physically have moved away), or it could be mentally (that is not in the right headspace at the moment / have issues to sort out), or could it be asking for them to wait for them after death?
Another "wait" could be that they are on their death bed, and he wants them to hold on for them.
But ultimately at the end determines it is best if they do not wait ... but go on (in some way or another).