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.
Now I see the trouble, it's coming up ahead
Black dogs running through the fields, they're dripping red
The world is quiet, and there's nothing left unsaid
Million image, million captured, million dead
And all the birds fall out of the sky in two by two's
And my teeth fall out my head into the snow
I am you now and you are me instead
Then I see there is blood on your wedding dress
And all of the old walk down and I'm feeling unsure
When I'm sleeping in my own place, but I'm not home
It is perfect, it's beautiful and still
And it is silent, it is white and it is good
And all by the fooling 'round with daisy chains on our heads
It is coming now, my friend, and it's the end
Black dogs running through the fields, they're dripping red
The world is quiet, and there's nothing left unsaid
Million image, million captured, million dead
And all the birds fall out of the sky in two by two's
And my teeth fall out my head into the snow
I am you now and you are me instead
Then I see there is blood on your wedding dress
And all of the old walk down and I'm feeling unsure
When I'm sleeping in my own place, but I'm not home
It is perfect, it's beautiful and still
And it is silent, it is white and it is good
And all by the fooling 'round with daisy chains on our heads
It is coming now, my friend, and it's the end
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This song is about the end of the world.
Moon' was two movements. The first bit was describing the end of the world and the destruction of your body an everything disintegrating and entropy… it's acceptance, a beautiful type of destruction, you're in a pacific state with no resentment or sorrow To me 'Moon' is like a film scene, you're walking and everything is collapsing around you, there are birds falling out of the sky and your teeth are falling out and everything is disintegrating into slurry. At the end there's a white light and you're accepting, and it's beautiful and still. Your fate is ineluctable, so you are, and you're content with it. In other songs there's a want for forgiveness in a lot of the tracks, or guilt or shame. There's a power behind those emotions that there isn't if you're just talking about more prosaic things.
teeth falling out in dreams signifies passage of time, an awareness that you're getting older