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.
Young hearts take all the deep cuts
Old scars, here to remind us of who we are
How far we've come
We fall so we can get back up
Fall down, down on our knees with our face straight up
Piece by piece we will pick ourselves back up again
Tearing down these walls
Dreaming of a new horizon
Out of ashes, we will rise (rise)
Rise up
Throw us to the wolves
And we'll show you what we're made of
Out of ashes, we will rise (rise)
Rise up out ofou ashes and dust
We will pick ourselves up
We rise up
These cuts never leave us the same
We are what comes from the choices of yesterday
From a taste of hell
Fall down, It's better to die trying
Deep down, Find out who you are in your darkest days
Piece by piece you will get your ass back up again
(So we are) tearing down these walls
Dreaming of a new horizon
Out of ashes, we will rise
Rise up
Throw us to the wolves
And we'll show you what we're made of
Out of ashes we will rise
Rise up out of ashes and dust
We will pick ourselves up
We rise up
Sometimes we need to break
Before we get up again, again, again
We need to believe in the impossible
(So we are) tearing down these walls
Dreaming of a new horizon
Out of ashes we will rise
Rise up
Throw us to the wolves
And we'll show you what we're made of
Out of ashes we will rise
Rise up out of ashes and dust
We will pick ourselves up
We rise up
Old scars, here to remind us of who we are
How far we've come
We fall so we can get back up
Fall down, down on our knees with our face straight up
Piece by piece we will pick ourselves back up again
Tearing down these walls
Dreaming of a new horizon
Out of ashes, we will rise (rise)
Rise up
Throw us to the wolves
And we'll show you what we're made of
Out of ashes, we will rise (rise)
Rise up out ofou ashes and dust
We will pick ourselves up
We rise up
These cuts never leave us the same
We are what comes from the choices of yesterday
From a taste of hell
Fall down, It's better to die trying
Deep down, Find out who you are in your darkest days
Piece by piece you will get your ass back up again
(So we are) tearing down these walls
Dreaming of a new horizon
Out of ashes, we will rise
Rise up
Throw us to the wolves
And we'll show you what we're made of
Out of ashes we will rise
Rise up out of ashes and dust
We will pick ourselves up
We rise up
Sometimes we need to break
Before we get up again, again, again
We need to believe in the impossible
(So we are) tearing down these walls
Dreaming of a new horizon
Out of ashes we will rise
Rise up
Throw us to the wolves
And we'll show you what we're made of
Out of ashes we will rise
Rise up out of ashes and dust
We will pick ourselves up
We rise up
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Rise Up Lyrics as written by Andre Alvinzi Benjamin Jennebo
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I think this is about getting up after one has been knocked down, no allowing defeat & instead rising higher.