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'm getting out and leaving you behind
I'm so tired of forging a life
On the run, a loaded gun
There's a name on the bullet, I'm afraid it's mine
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
I'm on the first boat leaving this war
I never got what we were fighting for
The water's warm, I can see dry land
No longer living under your command
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
I'm gonna sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath an empty sky (beneath a gentle sky)
I never got what we were fighting for
I'm all alone now, washed ashore
The waves break over me
In the blood-colored mud so tenderly
I'm on the first boat leaving this war
I never got what we were fighting for
The water's warm, I can see dry land
No longer living under your command
I'm gonna sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath a gentle sky
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath an empty sky (beneath a gentle sky)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath a gentle sky
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath an empty sky (beneath a gentle sky)
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Safe from your crimes
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Safe from your crimes
(Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia)
How can you choose
To let the blind see better than you?
How can you choose
To let the blind see better than you?
I'm so tired of forging a life
On the run, a loaded gun
There's a name on the bullet, I'm afraid it's mine
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
I'm on the first boat leaving this war
I never got what we were fighting for
The water's warm, I can see dry land
No longer living under your command
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
I'm gonna sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath an empty sky (beneath a gentle sky)
I never got what we were fighting for
I'm all alone now, washed ashore
The waves break over me
In the blood-colored mud so tenderly
I'm on the first boat leaving this war
I never got what we were fighting for
The water's warm, I can see dry land
No longer living under your command
I'm gonna sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath a gentle sky
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath an empty sky (beneath a gentle sky)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
(I had to let you go, let you go, let you go)
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath a gentle sky
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Beneath an empty sky (beneath a gentle sky)
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Safe from your crimes
Sleep well
Sleep tonight
On the shore
Safe from your crimes
(Selective amnesia's the people's anesthesia)
How can you choose
To let the blind see better than you?
How can you choose
To let the blind see better than you?
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
On the Shore Lyrics as written by Aristotelis Vasilios Mihalopoulos Otep Shamaya
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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