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.
All night, like a child
I stayed up to prove
I can keep up
All night, like a fool
I stayed up to prove
I can keep up with you
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, you're losing your voice)
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're bored by choice)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
What can I say?
I stay up to prove
I can keep up
I stay up to prove
I can keep up with you
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, you're losing your voice)
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're bored by choice)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
(All night, all night)
What can I say
I stay up to prove
I can keep up with you
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, you're losing your voice)
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're bored by choice)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
I stayed up to prove
I can keep up
All night, like a fool
I stayed up to prove
I can keep up with you
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, you're losing your voice)
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're bored by choice)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
What can I say?
I stay up to prove
I can keep up
I stay up to prove
I can keep up with you
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, you're losing your voice)
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're bored by choice)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
(All night, all night)
What can I say
I stay up to prove
I can keep up with you
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, you're losing your voice)
All night
(Made a plan, it was grand, but you're bored by choice)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
All night
(Sing along with the band, but you're still in the void)
Lyrics submitted by voidbandit, edited by charnn
The Void Lyrics as written by James Shaw Emily Haines
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LOL...you stayed in because you got pissed earlier tonight and didn't feel well enough to go out. But what lie did you tell lil' miss second best? Settling...always have to be someone else/wear a mask. What a FREE and FUN and INDEPENDENT way to live! You can't keep up. You can keep up behind music and on a computer. You're too fearful to keep up in the real world unless it's easy and robotic (year after year after year...same dull routine played off as exciting). Give up. You died long ago. THAT'S WHAT THE SONG IS ABOUT.