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.
I can't wait to know how I die
I can't even think to listen
Everything expires sometimes before it's time
Now drift away
It makes no sense until it happens
Paint thrown on a masterpiece
Creates new canvas to mold
Creates new canvas to mold
Let it go is all you know
I am the yearning purging itself
I am in love with the emptiness
The zero brings us back to none
Need to exist to sell you pain
The zero brings us back to none
Hell is too good for us
Heaven is the electric chair
Balance the spectrums
Now drift away
I am the yearning purging itself
I am in love with the emptiness
The zero brings us back to none
Need to exist to sell you pain
The zero brings us back to none
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
I am the yearning purging itself
I am in love with the emptiness
The zero brings us back to none
Need to exist to sell you pain
The zero brings us back to none
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
So how do you hold on
How do you hold on
How do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
I can't even think to listen
Everything expires sometimes before it's time
Now drift away
It makes no sense until it happens
Paint thrown on a masterpiece
Creates new canvas to mold
Creates new canvas to mold
Let it go is all you know
I am the yearning purging itself
I am in love with the emptiness
The zero brings us back to none
Need to exist to sell you pain
The zero brings us back to none
Hell is too good for us
Heaven is the electric chair
Balance the spectrums
Now drift away
I am the yearning purging itself
I am in love with the emptiness
The zero brings us back to none
Need to exist to sell you pain
The zero brings us back to none
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
I am the yearning purging itself
I am in love with the emptiness
The zero brings us back to none
Need to exist to sell you pain
The zero brings us back to none
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
So how do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
So how do you hold on
How do you hold on
How do you hold on
When your hands are tied?
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