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'm on a submarine mission for you baby
I feel the way you were going
I pictured you up on my TV screen
I feel your undercurrent flowing
Submission going down down
Dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
You've got me pretty deep baby
I can't figure out your watery love
I gotta solve your mystery
You're setting it out in heaven above
Submission going down down
Dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
For there's a mystery
Under the sea
And an octopus rock
Under the water
Submission going down down
You're dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
An underwater secret
Baby, oh, share it
I'm on a submarine mission for you baby
I feel the way you were going
I pictured you up on my TV screen
I feel your undercurrent flowing
Submission I'm going down down
Dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
What I've found
Submission
Submission
Submission
I'm falling down
You're dragging me down
Under the sea
I feel the way you were going
I pictured you up on my TV screen
I feel your undercurrent flowing
Submission going down down
Dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
You've got me pretty deep baby
I can't figure out your watery love
I gotta solve your mystery
You're setting it out in heaven above
Submission going down down
Dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
For there's a mystery
Under the sea
And an octopus rock
Under the water
Submission going down down
You're dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
An underwater secret
Baby, oh, share it
I'm on a submarine mission for you baby
I feel the way you were going
I pictured you up on my TV screen
I feel your undercurrent flowing
Submission I'm going down down
Dragging me down
Submission I can't tell ya what I've found
What I've found
Submission
Submission
Submission
I'm falling down
You're dragging me down
Under the sea
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Submission Lyrics as written by Paul Thomas Cook Glen Matlock
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My favorite song by Sex Pistols.So deep.Pure Jungian stuff,really.And I like 'em when they play slooow, punk is not a matter of speed (no pun intended.)
@dorareever <br /> as a fan you disappoint me - this turgid piece of idiocy was merely a managerial obligation and it shows - whoever wrote it [and it was most obviously Rotten] had absolutely NO grasp of language, metaphor, meaning or insight [no pun intended]
@exobscura<br /> Dude, chill.