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.
All engines must fail sometimes
People must fail sometimes
Machines will break on somedays
Everyone breaks up somedays
Disappear like ravens
Wishin' I could save us
The dark blows into the darkest night (ravens)
For the dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
(Ravens, ravens)
Lions get scared sometimes
We all get scared sometimes
Don't understand you right now
I don't even know you right now
Disappear like ravens
Free of mind and dangerous
They attack once into the darkest night (ravens)
For the dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
(Ravens, ravens, ravens, ravens)
Kisses will end one day
It's a sad day
When the kisses end
We disappear like ravens
Wishin' I could save us
The dark winds into the darkest night (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
(Ravens, ravens, ravens, ravens)
The dark winds into the darkest night (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
People must fail sometimes
Machines will break on somedays
Everyone breaks up somedays
Disappear like ravens
Wishin' I could save us
The dark blows into the darkest night (ravens)
For the dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
(Ravens, ravens)
Lions get scared sometimes
We all get scared sometimes
Don't understand you right now
I don't even know you right now
Disappear like ravens
Free of mind and dangerous
They attack once into the darkest night (ravens)
For the dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
(Ravens, ravens, ravens, ravens)
Kisses will end one day
It's a sad day
When the kisses end
We disappear like ravens
Wishin' I could save us
The dark winds into the darkest night (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
(Ravens, ravens, ravens, ravens)
The dark winds into the darkest night (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
The dark wants to know how to love you right (ravens)
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Ravens Lyrics as written by Gavin Rossdale
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I think this song's about how we all can get lost in this world, feel hopeless & how it can seem there's no light in the dark. We're not really free but we wish we could all be free as birds, free like Ravens but how that could cause its own chaos too (be careful what you wish for). Also how dangerous the world is now with all the terrorism and how each & every one of us has a breaking point when it comes to both life and love.