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.
In a restless search for new opportunities and new ways of living, the mystery and the promise of distant horizons always have called men forward.
We are the lost and the silent
We are the shackled and small
We're looking up at the giants
We're going to watch when they fall
Do you hear me?
You're a Goliath to me
I'll be there when the bombs unfurl
Till the war is over
Lay your burdens on me
I can bear all the weight of the world
With you on my shoulders
We won't just fall away
We weren't just born to fade
Our stories are past the horizon
We're chasing the sun till we find them
Goodbye to what we made
No matter anyway
We're climbing until we transcend
Higher, higher to where the skies end
These are the dreams of our fathers
There'll be no wishing on the stars
We are the sons and the daughters
Let them come test who we are
Can you hear me?
You're a Goliath to me
I'll be there when the guns break out
Till the storm is over
Lay your burdens on me
I'll be there when your fate runs out
You'll be on my shoulders
We won't just fall away
We weren't just born to fade
Our stories are past the horizon
We're chasing the sun till we find them
Goodbye to what we made
No matter anyway
We're climbing until we transcend
Higher, higher to where the skies end
We left our chains
We left them below
We are all rising above
We were not born to stay low
Show me your strength
It's more than you know
You'll never know what you're made of
Until you set foot down the road
We knew this day
Was set long ago
And when the sharks smell the blood
They will all see it's their own
Own, own, own, own
We won't just fall away
We weren't just born to fade
Our stories are past the horizon
We're chasing the sun till we find them
Goodbye to what we made
No matter anyway
We're climbing until we transcend
Higher, higher to where the skies end
In a search that has continued for centuries, some far-out distant view with its promise of the unseen, and its promise of the unknown, has forever fathered the impulse to seek for new things in new places, new horizons.
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We are the lost and the silent
We are the shackled and small
We're looking up at the giants
We're going to watch when they fall
Do you hear me?
You're a Goliath to me
I'll be there when the bombs unfurl
Till the war is over
Lay your burdens on me
I can bear all the weight of the world
With you on my shoulders
We won't just fall away
We weren't just born to fade
Our stories are past the horizon
We're chasing the sun till we find them
Goodbye to what we made
No matter anyway
We're climbing until we transcend
Higher, higher to where the skies end
These are the dreams of our fathers
There'll be no wishing on the stars
We are the sons and the daughters
Let them come test who we are
Can you hear me?
You're a Goliath to me
I'll be there when the guns break out
Till the storm is over
Lay your burdens on me
I'll be there when your fate runs out
You'll be on my shoulders
We won't just fall away
We weren't just born to fade
Our stories are past the horizon
We're chasing the sun till we find them
Goodbye to what we made
No matter anyway
We're climbing until we transcend
Higher, higher to where the skies end
We left our chains
We left them below
We are all rising above
We were not born to stay low
Show me your strength
It's more than you know
You'll never know what you're made of
Until you set foot down the road
We knew this day
Was set long ago
And when the sharks smell the blood
They will all see it's their own
Own, own, own, own
We won't just fall away
We weren't just born to fade
Our stories are past the horizon
We're chasing the sun till we find them
Goodbye to what we made
No matter anyway
We're climbing until we transcend
Higher, higher to where the skies end
In a search that has continued for centuries, some far-out distant view with its promise of the unseen, and its promise of the unknown, has forever fathered the impulse to seek for new things in new places, new horizons.
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Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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I think this song is about how humanity is capable of doing such amazing things but yet something within us or outside of our own control is holding us back & how to overcome this.