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.
So you're tired but you're alive
So open up your eyes
And you can get some sleep when you are dead
Kill the clock inside your head
Bring your normalcy to the edge
And watch it drown in new horizons
New horizons
You said I'd only have to wait until I died
And that's no time
How did we come to think that this was funny
Cheering and laughing at the dying
While we've been riding the light in you
Wait
You said I'd only have to wait until I die
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Sin with a conquest
Life floods in with a new quest
Here's a voice for the voiceless
And a song for the soulless
Life floods in
Wait
You said I'd only have to wait until I die
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
When the times keep going wrong and we go right
When the times keep going wrong and we go right
Wait
You said I'd only have to wait until I die
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
When the times keep going wrong and we go right
We go right
So open up your eyes
And you can get some sleep when you are dead
Kill the clock inside your head
Bring your normalcy to the edge
And watch it drown in new horizons
New horizons
You said I'd only have to wait until I died
And that's no time
How did we come to think that this was funny
Cheering and laughing at the dying
While we've been riding the light in you
Wait
You said I'd only have to wait until I die
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Sin with a conquest
Life floods in with a new quest
Here's a voice for the voiceless
And a song for the soulless
Life floods in
Wait
You said I'd only have to wait until I die
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
When the times keep going wrong and we go right
When the times keep going wrong and we go right
Wait
You said I'd only have to wait until I die
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
Wait until I fly
(New horizons)
There is no such thing as time
Inside this moment no sun rising
Wait until I fly
When the times keep going wrong and we go right
We go right
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her voice, oh my lord. <3