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.
Not Your Monster
Once we
We were the young and the tragic
Trying to make our magic in
This world of temporary things
We were
Searching for sweet perfection
Turning it to affliction while
Not knowing fact from fiction
I was thoughtless
Never that cold and heartless
It was a play reserved for you
When you wanted something new
No more, call me when you are sober
You are too drunk to remember now
I did write you a love song
You got the words wrong
The pledge, the turn, the prestige
Are not worth anything
When we have to perform them
In front of a blind audience
We all have made our mistakes
Mistakes we've paid for
I'll always be a monster
But not your monster anymore
In the end we
Gave a birth to a hopeless dream
We had it all but prestige and
I have grown to hate our child
I learned
After we closed the curtain
And you had made me disappear
I was not the magician
But the assistant
The pledge, the turn, the prestige
Are not worth anything
When we have to perform them
In front of a blind audience
We all have made our mistakes
Mistakes we've paid for
I'll always be a monster
But not your monster anymore
I have no more cards up my sleeve
And you're no enchanter
I might have been playing the wolf
But you were the vampire
The pledge, the turn, the prestige
Are not worth anything
When we have to perform them
In front of a blind audience
We all have made our mistakes
Mistakes we've paid for
I'll always be a monster
But not your monster anymore
Once we
We were the young and the tragic
Trying to make our magic in
This world of temporary things
We were
Searching for sweet perfection
Turning it to affliction while
Not knowing fact from fiction
I was thoughtless
Never that cold and heartless
It was a play reserved for you
When you wanted something new
No more, call me when you are sober
You are too drunk to remember now
I did write you a love song
You got the words wrong
The pledge, the turn, the prestige
Are not worth anything
When we have to perform them
In front of a blind audience
We all have made our mistakes
Mistakes we've paid for
I'll always be a monster
But not your monster anymore
In the end we
Gave a birth to a hopeless dream
We had it all but prestige and
I have grown to hate our child
I learned
After we closed the curtain
And you had made me disappear
I was not the magician
But the assistant
The pledge, the turn, the prestige
Are not worth anything
When we have to perform them
In front of a blind audience
We all have made our mistakes
Mistakes we've paid for
I'll always be a monster
But not your monster anymore
I have no more cards up my sleeve
And you're no enchanter
I might have been playing the wolf
But you were the vampire
The pledge, the turn, the prestige
Are not worth anything
When we have to perform them
In front of a blind audience
We all have made our mistakes
Mistakes we've paid for
I'll always be a monster
But not your monster anymore
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Not Your Monster Lyrics as written by Jani Liimatainen
Lyrics © Royalty Network
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I think this song's about the twists & turns and power shifts we face in our relationships and in life in general. Furthermore, it speaks of the poison that romance can become once it atrophies and how much it can take from someone, in turn bringing out the beast inside.