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.
Sailing
on the waves near the sun
Horizon's
watching our travel to nowhere
Hundred
miles away from the coast
Thousand
from the struggle of my past life
A warning in the night
without any moonlight
The darkest omen is burning in our minds
Night is what can bring you here
Reflecting all the past
When a day is already gone,
another one is born
Shadows will be gone
a shiny light will come
All around the
new life just begin
Vessel's
sinking down in black sea
Realizes in a flash
he's going to die
Starting to feel
human once again
He's begging God
for a second chance
A warning in the night
without any moonlight
The darkest omen is burning in our minds
Night is what can bring you here
Reflecting all the past
When a day is already gone,
another one is born
Shadows will be gone
a shiny light will come
All around the
new life just begin
"I belong to an another world
I belong to an another time
And my story has gone on..."
Land's embracing him
with its warmth
Memories now are flowing
in his mind
Found his inner peace
which was lost
Wondering what life
is going to bring
A warning in the night
without any moonlight
The darkest omen is burning in our minds
Night is what can bring you here
Reflecting all the past
When a day is already gone,
another one is born
Shadows will be gone
a shiny light will come
All around the
new life just begin
on the waves near the sun
Horizon's
watching our travel to nowhere
Hundred
miles away from the coast
Thousand
from the struggle of my past life
A warning in the night
without any moonlight
The darkest omen is burning in our minds
Night is what can bring you here
Reflecting all the past
When a day is already gone,
another one is born
Shadows will be gone
a shiny light will come
All around the
new life just begin
Vessel's
sinking down in black sea
Realizes in a flash
he's going to die
Starting to feel
human once again
He's begging God
for a second chance
A warning in the night
without any moonlight
The darkest omen is burning in our minds
Night is what can bring you here
Reflecting all the past
When a day is already gone,
another one is born
Shadows will be gone
a shiny light will come
All around the
new life just begin
"I belong to an another world
I belong to an another time
And my story has gone on..."
Land's embracing him
with its warmth
Memories now are flowing
in his mind
Found his inner peace
which was lost
Wondering what life
is going to bring
A warning in the night
without any moonlight
The darkest omen is burning in our minds
Night is what can bring you here
Reflecting all the past
When a day is already gone,
another one is born
Shadows will be gone
a shiny light will come
All around the
new life just begin
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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