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.
Look out
Tell me this is nothing
Something's playing tricks
And it's chipping away
I kept swirling is the trouble
Disguised in the paces
They're blocking my way
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
And I can't get away
Somewhere inside
I feel it breathing and I realize
The worst is on its way
It is always something
Life keeps throwing things that don't go my way
I'm damned, harmful thoughts devour me
All familiar places I can't escape
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
And I can't get away
Somewhere inside
I feel it breathing and I realize
The worst is on its way
It makes me sick
But I deal with it
Set it all aside
My confidence overrides
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
And I can't get away
Somewhere inside
I feel it breathing and I realize
The worst is on its way
The worst is on its way
The worst is on its way
It makes me sick
But I deal with it
Set it all aside
My confidence overrides
Overrides
Overrides
Overrides
Tell me this is nothing
Something's playing tricks
And it's chipping away
I kept swirling is the trouble
Disguised in the paces
They're blocking my way
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
And I can't get away
Somewhere inside
I feel it breathing and I realize
The worst is on its way
It is always something
Life keeps throwing things that don't go my way
I'm damned, harmful thoughts devour me
All familiar places I can't escape
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
And I can't get away
Somewhere inside
I feel it breathing and I realize
The worst is on its way
It makes me sick
But I deal with it
Set it all aside
My confidence overrides
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
Calling me
I feel it coursing through the inside
And I can't get away
Somewhere inside
I feel it breathing and I realize
The worst is on its way
The worst is on its way
The worst is on its way
It makes me sick
But I deal with it
Set it all aside
My confidence overrides
Overrides
Overrides
Overrides
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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On this song Jonathan Davis has said; This is the cycle of life. I’m in an up period; I’m happy, everything’s going great. But you know what, around the corner, something’s going to fucking happen like it always fucking does and steal my fucking joy. Everybody on this fucking planet, that happens to them. It just depends on how you react to it. The world’s fucked up right now.