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.
Feelings, flashcards
Fake knife, real ketchup
Cardboard, cutthroats
Cowboys of information
Pleasure-dot-loathing-dot-Huey-dot-Newton
It was a lonely, lonely winter
Fuck-less, pawn sharks
Toothless but got a big bark
Live children, blind psychics
Turned online assassins
So Hale-Bopp, Hail Mary
Hail Hagia Sophia
Oh, it was a lonely, lonely winter
Entombed in the shrine
Of zeros and ones, you know
You know
Oh, we fatherless features, you motherless creatures
You know
Oh, perpetual lying, always terribly frightening, you know
You know
Oh, you got the pop in the hiss
In the city of misfits, you know
Safe, safe, and safest
Faith for the faithless
Oh, dim, dim and dimmer
Sucker for sinners
I'm entombed in the shrine
Of zeros and ones, you know
You know
Oh, we fatherless features, you motherless creatures
You know
Oh, perpetual lying, always terribly frightening, you know
You know
You got the pop in the hiss
In the city of misfits
Oh, safe, safe, and safest
Faith for the faithless
Fake knife, real ketchup
Cardboard, cutthroats
Cowboys of information
Pleasure-dot-loathing-dot-Huey-dot-Newton
It was a lonely, lonely winter
Fuck-less, pawn sharks
Toothless but got a big bark
Live children, blind psychics
Turned online assassins
So Hale-Bopp, Hail Mary
Hail Hagia Sophia
Oh, it was a lonely, lonely winter
Entombed in the shrine
Of zeros and ones, you know
You know
Oh, we fatherless features, you motherless creatures
You know
Oh, perpetual lying, always terribly frightening, you know
You know
Oh, you got the pop in the hiss
In the city of misfits, you know
Safe, safe, and safest
Faith for the faithless
Oh, dim, dim and dimmer
Sucker for sinners
I'm entombed in the shrine
Of zeros and ones, you know
You know
Oh, we fatherless features, you motherless creatures
You know
Oh, perpetual lying, always terribly frightening, you know
You know
You got the pop in the hiss
In the city of misfits
Oh, safe, safe, and safest
Faith for the faithless
Lyrics submitted by HolyNomad, edited by TheCookFromMaine, DZCC4FaW
Huey Newton Lyrics as written by Anne Erin Clark
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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Seems to me it's a remarkably eloquent song about the remarkably ineloquent trolls of the internet. "Fuckless porn sharks", hahahahaha.