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.
I found ? the fingers start to twitch
The blood is set in commotion
The feet start to beat strange? on the street
Won't floods falls
The devils dive inside their minds
Everyone's a ?
The night on ? slide, ? tragic display
Silence ? and deserve, ? silence
? inspiration, seduction ? emotion, ?
I just sing to this allergy, ? rapidly
The ? terrible ?
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death.
The blood is set in commotion
The feet start to beat strange? on the street
Won't floods falls
The devils dive inside their minds
Everyone's a ?
The night on ? slide, ? tragic display
Silence ? and deserve, ? silence
? inspiration, seduction ? emotion, ?
I just sing to this allergy, ? rapidly
The ? terrible ?
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death
I will watch them dance them souls to death.
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Chorea Lyrics as written by Rachel Anna Davies Daniel Copeman
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"At first the fingers start to twitch The blood is set in commotion The feet start to beat Strange tattoos on the street A warmth floods fast (They grow wild) The devil's dived Inside their minds Everyone's on fire
Like mad dogs they slather Writhing and rabid Feverishly twisting A tragic display
Wrestling tremors Imprisoned in prisms Together in silence They desperatly pray
Ferocious, voracious Infectious, afflictions Convulsions, contortions Devour their victims
Heaven help me
A descent into savagery Plummeting rapidly They tried in vain to shake this terrible hex
With reckless abandon Belief was confounded By spiralling, spluttering, Quivering wrecks
Heaven help me
And we watched Them dance Themselves to death
Everyone's on fire
Heaven help me"
Sounds like an absolutely horrible way to die.