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.
Trail through the wilderness
Driest season known to us
Think about you all the time
Think about you all the time
Trail through the sinfulness
Driest season known to us
Dreamed I saw it all come down
Dreamed I saw my pleasure raining down
[REFRAIN]:
Salty lips to taste, skin to touch
Nothing matters, very much
In your arms it's a raining pleasure
I believe it's raining pleasure
Too little cash, too much time to kill
Buried alive in a shack, on the side of a hill
Hasn't rained for fifteen years
Hasn't rained for fifteen years
Been three weeks, I can't get through
Phone is dead, baby is that you?
Been three weeks, I can't get through
Phone is dead, baby is that you?
Baby is that you?
Baby is that you?
[REFRAIN]
[AL FINE]:
I believe it's raining pleasure
Driest season known to us
Think about you all the time
Think about you all the time
Trail through the sinfulness
Driest season known to us
Dreamed I saw it all come down
Dreamed I saw my pleasure raining down
[REFRAIN]:
Salty lips to taste, skin to touch
Nothing matters, very much
In your arms it's a raining pleasure
I believe it's raining pleasure
Too little cash, too much time to kill
Buried alive in a shack, on the side of a hill
Hasn't rained for fifteen years
Hasn't rained for fifteen years
Been three weeks, I can't get through
Phone is dead, baby is that you?
Been three weeks, I can't get through
Phone is dead, baby is that you?
Baby is that you?
Baby is that you?
[REFRAIN]
[AL FINE]:
I believe it's raining pleasure
Lyrics submitted by TheDirge, edited by sneeuwitje
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One of those songs that defined me, and I got to love over 'just' two lines of refrain:
"Salty lips to taste, skin to touch Nothing matters, very much"
Those words were given such magic in this song, that I forgive them for making a bit of a mess of the rest of it.