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.
She is her own worst enemy
Her heart, a landmine calamity
Waiting for someone to set her off
Morse code clicking out an SOS
Life raft releasing her last breath
Oh, tonight she's gonna drown
Without me, will she reach the great beyond?
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart
And away we go, ho-ho, ha
My little Jersey girl
If we could escape this innocence
Trapped between the fears and the words we kept
We'll live out our later years
Here in our dreams, we'll reach a great beyond
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart
And away we go
Oh, sinking in this beautiful undertow
Together, with you, hey
We're giving up
You can leave what little we believe
Our flaw, discard, come give me what I need
My thoughts won't go away, you are my holiday
And together we'll receive and reach that great beyond
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart
And away we go
My little Jersey girl, my little Jersey girl
My little Jersey girl, fly and away we go
Her heart, a landmine calamity
Waiting for someone to set her off
Morse code clicking out an SOS
Life raft releasing her last breath
Oh, tonight she's gonna drown
Without me, will she reach the great beyond?
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart
And away we go, ho-ho, ha
My little Jersey girl
If we could escape this innocence
Trapped between the fears and the words we kept
We'll live out our later years
Here in our dreams, we'll reach a great beyond
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart
And away we go
Oh, sinking in this beautiful undertow
Together, with you, hey
We're giving up
You can leave what little we believe
Our flaw, discard, come give me what I need
My thoughts won't go away, you are my holiday
And together we'll receive and reach that great beyond
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart
And away we go
My little Jersey girl, my little Jersey girl
My little Jersey girl, fly and away we go
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Dr. Straight and his team have done everything they can to save Meri Amory's life after the car wreck, but it all proves fruitless; she cannot be saved.
Her life begins to flash before her eyes; Meri feels herself guided by a mysterious presence through a strange landscape. The world morphs around her and suddenly she finds herself in a familiar place: the Jersey City dunes, on her way to meet a boy she's only met once prior. She is anxious; she has lived this before and yet she feels her heart beating faster and faster as she approaches her destination.
And there he is, at the end of the dock: a young Sirius Amory. The two embrace, not saying anything, happy to be together. "It's nice to see you again, Sirius," she says; and when he opens his mouth, there are no words. She is enveloped in a warm glow, as she is transported into the limbo of the Keywork, content but unaware of what her afterlife holds.