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.
The sky opened up the day you were born
I was so lost, broken and torn
There was a hole, no joy in my life
Ended my darkness by bringing the light
As I fall through the flames
Yeah, you saved me
You give me a reason to feel like I belong here
I'll be building this house made of gold
Darling, I now feel
Yeah, I pushed through the rain and the cold
And forgot all the pain that I've known
Yeah, you give me a reason to feel like I belong here
In this house made of gold
Daylight sent from the sky
Burnt through the violence inside
(Your eyes, your eyes
Your infinite eyes
Your innocence shines
My shadows, they die)
Long years, the wondering soul
Once half a man, now my heart, my heart has gone cold
(My heart, my heart
You'll never be alone
A paradise found, you are my true north)
As I fall through the flames
Yeah, you saved me
You give me a reason to feel like I belong here
I'll be building this house made of gold
Darling, I now feel
Yeah I pushed through the rain and the cold
And forgot all the pain that I've known
Yeah you give me a reason to feel like I belong here
In this house made of gold
You give me a reason to feel like I belong here
I'll be building this house made of gold
Darling, I now feel
Yeah I pushed through the rain and the cold
And forgot all the pain that I've known
Yeah you give me a reason to feel like I belong here
In this house made of gold
I was so lost, broken and torn
There was a hole, no joy in my life
Ended my darkness by bringing the light
As I fall through the flames
Yeah, you saved me
You give me a reason to feel like I belong here
I'll be building this house made of gold
Darling, I now feel
Yeah, I pushed through the rain and the cold
And forgot all the pain that I've known
Yeah, you give me a reason to feel like I belong here
In this house made of gold
Daylight sent from the sky
Burnt through the violence inside
(Your eyes, your eyes
Your infinite eyes
Your innocence shines
My shadows, they die)
Long years, the wondering soul
Once half a man, now my heart, my heart has gone cold
(My heart, my heart
You'll never be alone
A paradise found, you are my true north)
As I fall through the flames
Yeah, you saved me
You give me a reason to feel like I belong here
I'll be building this house made of gold
Darling, I now feel
Yeah I pushed through the rain and the cold
And forgot all the pain that I've known
Yeah you give me a reason to feel like I belong here
In this house made of gold
You give me a reason to feel like I belong here
I'll be building this house made of gold
Darling, I now feel
Yeah I pushed through the rain and the cold
And forgot all the pain that I've known
Yeah you give me a reason to feel like I belong here
In this house made of gold
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow, edited by Traumacode
House of Gold Lyrics as written by Daniel Dan L. Jacobs Brandon Saller
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Seems to be about the birth of a child saving someone who's life up until then had been mired in darkness.