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 want to know
What's inside
I cut her open
She doesn't bleed out
Like a river
She has run dry
I try to grab her
She turns away
She turns away
I can't believe that she's not real
She's all I ever wanted
No one can hear the whispering
She keeps on drifting away
I can see you under a veil of memories
She takes me away
We have lost our gravity
Break my fall
Let's let the wind decide
Where we are going to fall
Soaring to a destination
Black feathers in the storm
We are right where we belong
Carried by our desolation
I can't let go
She gets me high
She's just a shadow
But feels so alive
Like a vision
In my eyes
I try to grab her
She fades away
I can see you under a veil of memories
She fades away
We have lost our gravity
Break my fall
Let's let the wind decide
Where we are going to fall
Soaring to a destination
She takes me away
Black feathers in the storm
We are right where we belong
Carried by our desolation
Break my fall
She takes me away
Can't let go
Black feathers in the storm
Where will we fall?
Will we ever be home?
Let's let the wind decide
Where we are going to fall
Soaring to a destination
She takes me away
Black feathers in the storm
We are right where we belong
Carried by our desolation
Can't let go
What's inside
I cut her open
She doesn't bleed out
Like a river
She has run dry
I try to grab her
She turns away
She turns away
I can't believe that she's not real
She's all I ever wanted
No one can hear the whispering
She keeps on drifting away
I can see you under a veil of memories
She takes me away
We have lost our gravity
Break my fall
Let's let the wind decide
Where we are going to fall
Soaring to a destination
Black feathers in the storm
We are right where we belong
Carried by our desolation
I can't let go
She gets me high
She's just a shadow
But feels so alive
Like a vision
In my eyes
I try to grab her
She fades away
I can see you under a veil of memories
She fades away
We have lost our gravity
Break my fall
Let's let the wind decide
Where we are going to fall
Soaring to a destination
She takes me away
Black feathers in the storm
We are right where we belong
Carried by our desolation
Break my fall
She takes me away
Can't let go
Black feathers in the storm
Where will we fall?
Will we ever be home?
Let's let the wind decide
Where we are going to fall
Soaring to a destination
She takes me away
Black feathers in the storm
We are right where we belong
Carried by our desolation
Can't let go
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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I think this is about becoming infatuated with someone you have envisioned, perhaps caught a glance of in passing but never actually met. You wanna know for sure if they are real and you don't wanna believe that they might not be.