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.
Hey hey can you feel it
The way it, you
The thump in your chest
You make my feet move
You turn my head
That's why I love you the best
Hey you fill up the spaces
Those empty places
The corners and cracks
You kill my sickness
My only witness
You're all that I have
That's how we like
We like what we like
That's what we like
We love which is you
We got an eye
An eye for what's romance
We've got our eyes
Our eyes straight on you
You watch us dance
We dance till we're dying
We dance to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound
The sound is what found us
The sound is the blood between me and you
Back when I had no story
Living a folly ?
You got under my skin
You were my make up
My...
My reason to move
Can't stop the bleeding
No this leaving though I've tried
And when I return
With those fresh wounds you, inside
Hey you've got me crawling
You've got me spinning
Shake, shimmy, shake
First you ? me, then resurrect me
Too much
That's how we like
We like what we like
That's what we like
We love which is you
We got an eye
An eye for what's romance
We've got our eyes
Our eyes straight on you
You watch us dance
We dance till we're dying
We dance to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound
The sound is what found us
The sound is the blood between me and you
That's how we like what we like
That's what we like
We love which is you
We've got an ear
An ear for what's romance
We've got our ears
Our ears straight on you
You watch us sing
We sing till we're crying
We sing to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound
The sound is what found us
The sound is the blood (love?) between me and you
The way it, you
The thump in your chest
You make my feet move
You turn my head
That's why I love you the best
Hey you fill up the spaces
Those empty places
The corners and cracks
You kill my sickness
My only witness
You're all that I have
That's how we like
We like what we like
That's what we like
We love which is you
We got an eye
An eye for what's romance
We've got our eyes
Our eyes straight on you
You watch us dance
We dance till we're dying
We dance to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound
The sound is what found us
The sound is the blood between me and you
Back when I had no story
Living a folly ?
You got under my skin
You were my make up
My...
My reason to move
Can't stop the bleeding
No this leaving though I've tried
And when I return
With those fresh wounds you, inside
Hey you've got me crawling
You've got me spinning
Shake, shimmy, shake
First you ? me, then resurrect me
Too much
That's how we like
We like what we like
That's what we like
We love which is you
We got an eye
An eye for what's romance
We've got our eyes
Our eyes straight on you
You watch us dance
We dance till we're dying
We dance to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound
The sound is what found us
The sound is the blood between me and you
That's how we like what we like
That's what we like
We love which is you
We've got an ear
An ear for what's romance
We've got our ears
Our ears straight on you
You watch us sing
We sing till we're crying
We sing to free ourselves from the room
We love the sound
The sound is what found us
The sound is the blood (love?) between me and you
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