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 wanna be alone
Shut up for a while
The world won’t stop if you don’t die
But don't leave me alone
I'm not as strong as you think
Come deeper
Don’t act like you know
No one will save you
Something goes away again
I hear the sound of something collapsing inside my heart
Don’t feel any pain
Don’t worry it’s the same pain
Even if everything hurts you
You have you
So don’t look so sad
Step by step
When people have a hole in their fucking heart
They try to fill it with someone else's fucking words
sometimes that makes the hole even bigger
The more you try to heal the wound, the more it will spread
Burn Burn
Something is still burning inside you
Burn Burn
When it burns out it’s when everything will be the end
Even if everyone disappears
I wanna be alone
Shut up for a while
The world won’t stop if you don’t die
But don't leave me alone
I'm not as strong as you think
Come deeper
Don’t act like you know
Nothing fucking saved you
Learned the pleasure of suffering alone
The sickness has started again
The demon won’t release me
Never ends
Fuck it
Nothing fucking saved you
Whose words are true
Someone who think they know comes up to you
Deny your weakness
No one will save you
No time to pray for mother fuckers
Defend your self
You'll hear something but it’s not a auditory hallucination
Every time I search for an answer, the gears start going wrong
Going crazy every time I search for a word
What’s in your eyes
What’s in your fucking eyes
Only you know
Burn Burn
Something is still burning inside you
Burn Burn
When it burns out it’s when everything will be the end
Even if everyone disappears
I wanna be alone
Shut up for a while
The world won’t stop if you don’t die
But don't leave me alone
I'm not as strong as you think
Come deeper
Don’t act like you know
"Will I find the answer when I wanna die?"
You say it hurts to be you
Will I find the answer when I wanna die?
The world you are looking is not wrong
I wanna think so
Shut up for a while
The world won’t stop if you don’t die
But don't leave me alone
I'm not as strong as you think
Come deeper
Don’t act like you know
No one will save you
Something goes away again
I hear the sound of something collapsing inside my heart
Don’t feel any pain
Don’t worry it’s the same pain
Even if everything hurts you
You have you
So don’t look so sad
Step by step
When people have a hole in their fucking heart
They try to fill it with someone else's fucking words
sometimes that makes the hole even bigger
The more you try to heal the wound, the more it will spread
Burn Burn
Something is still burning inside you
Burn Burn
When it burns out it’s when everything will be the end
Even if everyone disappears
I wanna be alone
Shut up for a while
The world won’t stop if you don’t die
But don't leave me alone
I'm not as strong as you think
Come deeper
Don’t act like you know
Nothing fucking saved you
Learned the pleasure of suffering alone
The sickness has started again
The demon won’t release me
Never ends
Fuck it
Nothing fucking saved you
Whose words are true
Someone who think they know comes up to you
Deny your weakness
No one will save you
No time to pray for mother fuckers
Defend your self
You'll hear something but it’s not a auditory hallucination
Every time I search for an answer, the gears start going wrong
Going crazy every time I search for a word
What’s in your eyes
What’s in your fucking eyes
Only you know
Burn Burn
Something is still burning inside you
Burn Burn
When it burns out it’s when everything will be the end
Even if everyone disappears
I wanna be alone
Shut up for a while
The world won’t stop if you don’t die
But don't leave me alone
I'm not as strong as you think
Come deeper
Don’t act like you know
"Will I find the answer when I wanna die?"
You say it hurts to be you
Will I find the answer when I wanna die?
The world you are looking is not wrong
I wanna think so
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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To me this is about some apocalyptic love story, cryptic to the core and wrought with pain throughout.