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.
He's been chasing white lines across the open sky
Following them far away from the ones he left behind
And even though he's misses her
He was born a traveler
White line after white line he inhales
White line after white line he inhales
He's a drifter and a gambler
He's a lonely rolling stone
He's a dreamer and a rambler
And the highway is his home
All the pain that he's collected
On a long and wicked road
It's in his eyes
But the dream in inside the drifter never dies
People turn to vampires on these veins of interstate
Hearts gift-wrapped barbed wire as the move from place to place
And he can nail them on the wind
The demons chasing after him
White line after white line he inhales
White line after white line he inhales
He's a drifter and a gambler
He's a lonely rolling stone
He's a dreamer and a rambler
And the highway is his home
All the pain that he's collected
On a long and wicked road is in his eyes
But the dream in inside the drifter never dies
And even though he misses her
He was born a traveler
White line after white line he inhales
White line after white line he exhales
Following them far away from the ones he left behind
And even though he's misses her
He was born a traveler
White line after white line he inhales
White line after white line he inhales
He's a drifter and a gambler
He's a lonely rolling stone
He's a dreamer and a rambler
And the highway is his home
All the pain that he's collected
On a long and wicked road
It's in his eyes
But the dream in inside the drifter never dies
People turn to vampires on these veins of interstate
Hearts gift-wrapped barbed wire as the move from place to place
And he can nail them on the wind
The demons chasing after him
White line after white line he inhales
White line after white line he inhales
He's a drifter and a gambler
He's a lonely rolling stone
He's a dreamer and a rambler
And the highway is his home
All the pain that he's collected
On a long and wicked road is in his eyes
But the dream in inside the drifter never dies
And even though he misses her
He was born a traveler
White line after white line he inhales
White line after white line he exhales
Lyrics submitted by MusicFREAK20, edited by sonicemerald
The Drifter Lyrics as written by Joseph David Walser Blake Carney Allison
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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ha ha ha ha shut up butt head. Snap, crackle pop... cause i'm a wonderer, yeah I'ma wonderer im roam around around around around. Me like to drift all over the place, it's what I do. You got problems? I got crack. those are sum good ol knee slappers. yeah buddy.