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.
[Intro: Marshall Applewhite]
Planet Earth is about to be recycled
Your only chance to survive
Or evacuate is to leave with us
Leave with us
We are the vessel
We are the light seeds
We may forever leave this rock
Hail the forever presence
This is what you've been waiting for
Studied for years
This ancient presence will show its face
As it paints across our sky
Why stay and suffer with your kind?
Won't you
Won't you join and leave with us?
Here before your eyes
This holy moment
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Won't you join and leave with us?
Here before your eyes
This holy moment
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Do you understand?
Are you even listening?
This is the moment I will finally witness
I will finally witness
We all will witness
As it paints across our sky
Why stay and suffer with your kind?
Won't you
Won't you join and leave with us?
Here before your eyes
This holy moment
Can you feel it?
I can feel it
I can see it
I can taste it
This holy moment
Do you feel it?
I can feel it
Do you see it?
I can see it
Do you taste it?
I can taste
This holy moment
Come and take us
Come and take us
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
End of suffering
This is the end
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
End of suffering
This is the
End
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
End of suffering
This is the end
Planet Earth is about to be recycled
Your only chance to survive
Or evacuate is to leave with us
Leave with us
We are the vessel
We are the light seeds
We may forever leave this rock
Hail the forever presence
This is what you've been waiting for
Studied for years
This ancient presence will show its face
As it paints across our sky
Why stay and suffer with your kind?
Won't you
Won't you join and leave with us?
Here before your eyes
This holy moment
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Won't you join and leave with us?
Here before your eyes
This holy moment
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
Do you understand?
Are you even listening?
This is the moment I will finally witness
I will finally witness
We all will witness
As it paints across our sky
Why stay and suffer with your kind?
Won't you
Won't you join and leave with us?
Here before your eyes
This holy moment
Can you feel it?
I can feel it
I can see it
I can taste it
This holy moment
Do you feel it?
I can feel it
Do you see it?
I can see it
Do you taste it?
I can taste
This holy moment
Come and take us
Come and take us
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
End of suffering
This is the end
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
End of suffering
This is the
End
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
This will be the end of all suffering
End of suffering
This is the end
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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Lead guitarist Stephen Rutishauser says:
There’s an audio clip at the beginning of this song, and it’s all based around the reference to Heaven’s Gate. The lyrics are about, ‘Come with us, you’ll wind up on this phenomenon occurring in the sky, and then we will be the all-powerful people! But the greater message is just about the danger of following an ideal blindly and being wooed by shiny but inevitably empty promises. It’s taken directly from the Heaven’s Gate story, but this kind of thing happens all the time, on all sorts of scales.
— via Apple Music