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.
Yersinia Pestis!
The recurring pandemic
Not often enough it seems
For these mammalian hosts a systematic invasion is a must
These scattering rats
Their diseased existence
Earth's megalopoli a plague focus
Eradicated with Death's persistence
The density of the populace intensifies and modernized
The wrath of ""god"" bleeds from their eyes
...And like the raven this contagion keeps repeating, ever eating
Humanity to nevermore
Every body a host
Every body infected
Corpses white as a ghost
Naturally selected
Every body a host
Every body infected
Corpses white as a ghost
Naturally selected
Black Death, you've found us
Your cloak surrounds us
Boundlessly drown us
In bacillus countless
Bring back the plague
Delete those that threaten a new world
Start today
Dig their graves
They'll find a way to rid the world of finding new tomorrows
End of days
Dig those graves
Bring back the plague
Even if it means your own survival is at stake
Dig your grave
We'll find a way to rid the world of everyone tomorrow
End of days
Dig our grave
Malignant
Virulent
Mephitic
Anthropomorphic
Pneumonic
Septicemic
Bubonic
Anthropologic
The recurring pandemic
Not often enough it seems
For these mammalian hosts a systematic invasion is a must
These scattering rats
Their diseased existence
Earth's megalopoli a plague focus
Eradicated with Death's persistence
The density of the populace intensifies and modernized
The wrath of ""god"" bleeds from their eyes
...And like the raven this contagion keeps repeating, ever eating
Humanity to nevermore
Every body a host
Every body infected
Corpses white as a ghost
Naturally selected
Every body a host
Every body infected
Corpses white as a ghost
Naturally selected
Black Death, you've found us
Your cloak surrounds us
Boundlessly drown us
In bacillus countless
Bring back the plague
Delete those that threaten a new world
Start today
Dig their graves
They'll find a way to rid the world of finding new tomorrows
End of days
Dig those graves
Bring back the plague
Even if it means your own survival is at stake
Dig your grave
We'll find a way to rid the world of everyone tomorrow
End of days
Dig our grave
Malignant
Virulent
Mephitic
Anthropomorphic
Pneumonic
Septicemic
Bubonic
Anthropologic
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Bring Back the Plague Lyrics as written by David Mcgraw Belisario Dimuzio
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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This song was released in Oct. of last year but the video for it (you can see on youtube) was created & came out recently & features the band in quarantine watching tv which exposes just how bad the human race can act at times in a plague type situation. Sure a plague can bring out the best in people but the focus here is the other side; the greed (hoarding groceries), the selfishness & disregard for others (spring breakers still partying on beaches). That's what the song to me is about to me, the worst in humanity becoming exposed by a circumstance as extreme as a plague.