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.
The years unfold in one moment
The voices that we heard so loud
Are now suddenly silenced
Inside this crowd
And you're surrounded by the lives
Of those who found something to hold
So bringing everybody down
Is all you know
You've been hiding so long
You can't find yourself
In this sheltered life you live
When everything you want is at your fingertips
You'll never know what need is
You're claiming to be something different
So wanting to believe
That you're better than the rest
To make up for your self-esteem
You talk to hear your own voice and
You've left me no choice but to choose
I miss the person that you were
But I don't miss you
You're the new revolution
The angst-filled adolescent
You fit the stereotype well
The voices that we heard so loud
Are now suddenly silenced
Inside this crowd
And you're surrounded by the lives
Of those who found something to hold
So bringing everybody down
Is all you know
You've been hiding so long
You can't find yourself
In this sheltered life you live
When everything you want is at your fingertips
You'll never know what need is
You're claiming to be something different
So wanting to believe
That you're better than the rest
To make up for your self-esteem
You talk to hear your own voice and
You've left me no choice but to choose
I miss the person that you were
But I don't miss you
You're the new revolution
The angst-filled adolescent
You fit the stereotype well
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Six Ways 'Til Sunday Lyrics as written by Dan Wleklinski Brandon Barnes
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Sometimes I hear these songs about the protagonist's friend or former friend or whatever, who changed for the worst because of stresses in life and all that, and I start to think of people in my life who changed in a similar way... and then I realize there's a good chance I was that friend to someone else, whose personality just got buried underneath all the day-to-day pressures of life and changed or disappeared... bit chilling