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.
You can go wherever you wanna go
Go wherever you wanna go
Fly up to the moon and say hello now
You can go wherever you wanna go
You don't ever have to go to war no more
Never have to go to war no more
Wear them boots and swim that icy shore now
You don't ever have to go to war no more
You can get up on some sunny day and run
Run a hundred miles just for fun now
Heartaches and yesterdays don't weigh a ton now
You can get up on some sunny day and run
You don't ever have to pay the bills no more
Break a sweat or walk a worried floor now
Working like a dog ain't what you're for now
You don't ever have to pay the bills no more
You can go wherever you wanna go
You can go wherever you wanna go
Go to where the time's wound all the way down
Put a penny on the track and wait for train sounds
Tell your mama you're coming back before the sun's down
You can go wherever you wanna go
Go wherever you wanna go
Fly up to the moon and say hello now
You can go wherever you wanna go
You don't ever have to go to war no more
Never have to go to war no more
Wear them boots and swim that icy shore now
You don't ever have to go to war no more
You can get up on some sunny day and run
Run a hundred miles just for fun now
Heartaches and yesterdays don't weigh a ton now
You can get up on some sunny day and run
You don't ever have to pay the bills no more
Break a sweat or walk a worried floor now
Working like a dog ain't what you're for now
You don't ever have to pay the bills no more
You can go wherever you wanna go
You can go wherever you wanna go
Go to where the time's wound all the way down
Put a penny on the track and wait for train sounds
Tell your mama you're coming back before the sun's down
You can go wherever you wanna go
Lyrics submitted by smallwonderrobot
Go Wherever You Wanna Go Lyrics as written by Patricia J. Griffin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I think it's addressed to someone who has died, with the optimistic notion that there is an idyllic afterlife where one's earthly worries and tribulations are erased and all the joys of being alive can be experienced at any time. It must be nice to believe in that.