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.
Hesitation... staring at the void. Watch the needle break your skin. Levitation... after all the noise as the city and the sirens start to fade.
Levitation: intoxicated with desire. Do you feel hollow? Do you feel hollow in the glow? I split the difference with a tourniquet, cut short by the kinetic eclipse of my static defense(less) against the violet lights... waiting for us. Euphoria in the motion - and I wonder: Am I offering all of me to you?
I felt the clouds begin to sink. I thought I needed to end but now I need you to speak and interrupt the silence. We fell asleep to the sound of sirens, our vessels intertwined the sea receives the sky. You are the shiver in my spine. Time is not a river, time is an ocean: Eternal return. And I felt you start to stir with pacific currents time will make us one with the tide. Euphoria in the motion - and I wonder: Am I offering all of me to you?
Pulled from my veins - propagating an ocean of myriad clones. You weren't supposed to see this. You weren't supposed to be here.
Levitation: intoxicated with desire. Do you feel hollow? Do you feel hollow in the glow? I split the difference with a tourniquet, cut short by the kinetic eclipse of my static defense(less) against the violet lights... waiting for us. Euphoria in the motion - and I wonder: Am I offering all of me to you?
I felt the clouds begin to sink. I thought I needed to end but now I need you to speak and interrupt the silence. We fell asleep to the sound of sirens, our vessels intertwined the sea receives the sky. You are the shiver in my spine. Time is not a river, time is an ocean: Eternal return. And I felt you start to stir with pacific currents time will make us one with the tide. Euphoria in the motion - and I wonder: Am I offering all of me to you?
Pulled from my veins - propagating an ocean of myriad clones. You weren't supposed to see this. You weren't supposed to be here.
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Euphoria Lyrics as written by Joe Camarillo Ezequiel Flores
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feat. Alejandro Arando (aka scarypoolparty)
I think this track is about the search for meaning and connection in a chaotic world. Sometimes such a daunting task can seem relentless & make us feel the darkest thoughts along the way.