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.
These graves are cold and empty
He knew it's where we'd soon reside
The waves recede so gently
They only left the sands of time
(What have we done?)
To the future, we run
(What have we done?)
Headlong without question
(What have we done?)
Creations devised
(What have we done?)
To put an end to all life
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
These shadows sleep so soundly
Appalled, he now averts his eyes
Disgraced, he felt so empty
Entrusting us with our demise
(What have we done?)
To the future, we run
(What have we done?)
Headlong without question
(What have we done?)
Creations devised
(What have we done?)
To put an end to all life
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Go
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
He knew it's where we'd soon reside
The waves recede so gently
They only left the sands of time
(What have we done?)
To the future, we run
(What have we done?)
Headlong without question
(What have we done?)
Creations devised
(What have we done?)
To put an end to all life
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
These shadows sleep so soundly
Appalled, he now averts his eyes
Disgraced, he felt so empty
Entrusting us with our demise
(What have we done?)
To the future, we run
(What have we done?)
Headlong without question
(What have we done?)
Creations devised
(What have we done?)
To put an end to all life
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Go
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
Beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
A dead road
A dark sun
Now waits beyond oblivion
Lyrics submitted by Santiago248
Beyond Oblivion Lyrics as written by Matthew Kiichi Heafy Corey Beaulieu
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Paolo Gregoletto (Triviums bassist) says the bands guitarist Corey Beaulieu was scrolling through his TV guide & he saw the phrase ‘Beyond Oblivion’ on a show, and wrote it down. I felt like I could make that work for a chorus, so I had to think of a theme of what that would be. I was listening to a bunch of podcasts about artificial intelligence but they were comparing the idea of the coming technology to the atomic bomb of how we created this incredibly immense, dangerous world-destructing thing in a moment when no one was really thinking of the implications. The song was viewing it from the perspective of someone that creates this sort of technology and comes to view it for what it is.