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'll hold onto feeling
Until my final breath escapes
Gazing upon this world
Until it fades
Fall with me into the other night
We can go beyond the horizon again
Fall with me until we're out of time
Let the current swallow
These whispers keep clawing
Your mind is dissolving light
Sink while you bathe in hallucination
Accept this descent into the night
Releasing your grasp to induce separation
Plunged into the shadows
Lost in sensation, we're free falling down into the everblack
Can you feel it? These pins and needles
Trapped in sensation
See what you have found here
You fell into the dark
Release your grip and face the tide
Accepting this damnation
Relinquish flesh temptation
Of the body and soul
The ebb and the flow, nothing confessed
Put me to rest
Azrael
Guiding me beyond the veil
Obitual
Free me from this mortal shell
Enter into the darkest night
I will sink where I lie
Through the sands of time
Through the angel's eye
My final breath
Swallowed by the womb of death
Swallowed by the womb of death
Whispers are clawing
Your mind is dissolving light
Enter the void and fall with me (with me)
Fall with me (with me)
Enter the void
Fall
Release your grip and face the tide accepting this damnation
Relinquish flesh temptation
Of the body and soul
The ebb and the flow, nothing confessed
Put me to rest
Azrael
Guiding me beyond the veil
Obitual
Free me of this mortal shell
Enter into the darkest night
I will sink where I lie
Through the sands of time
Through the angel's eye
My final breath
Swallowed by the womb of death
Swallowed by the womb of death
Swallowed by the womb of death
Sink while you bathe in hallucination
My final breath
Swallowed by the womb of death
As you pass through the fucking gate
Descending towards the end faster
Until my final breath escapes
Gazing upon this world
Until it fades
Fall with me into the other night
We can go beyond the horizon again
Fall with me until we're out of time
Let the current swallow
These whispers keep clawing
Your mind is dissolving light
Sink while you bathe in hallucination
Accept this descent into the night
Releasing your grasp to induce separation
Plunged into the shadows
Lost in sensation, we're free falling down into the everblack
Can you feel it? These pins and needles
Trapped in sensation
See what you have found here
You fell into the dark
Release your grip and face the tide
Accepting this damnation
Relinquish flesh temptation
Of the body and soul
The ebb and the flow, nothing confessed
Put me to rest
Azrael
Guiding me beyond the veil
Obitual
Free me from this mortal shell
Enter into the darkest night
I will sink where I lie
Through the sands of time
Through the angel's eye
My final breath
Swallowed by the womb of death
Swallowed by the womb of death
Whispers are clawing
Your mind is dissolving light
Enter the void and fall with me (with me)
Fall with me (with me)
Enter the void
Fall
Release your grip and face the tide accepting this damnation
Relinquish flesh temptation
Of the body and soul
The ebb and the flow, nothing confessed
Put me to rest
Azrael
Guiding me beyond the veil
Obitual
Free me of this mortal shell
Enter into the darkest night
I will sink where I lie
Through the sands of time
Through the angel's eye
My final breath
Swallowed by the womb of death
Swallowed by the womb of death
Swallowed by the womb of death
Sink while you bathe in hallucination
My final breath
Swallowed by the womb of death
As you pass through the fucking gate
Descending towards the end faster
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow, edited by Jackson2009
To the Hellfire Lyrics as written by Adam Demicco Will Ramos
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I think this is about just accepting impending & inevitable darkness as opposed to fighting it.