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.
And we kill with every good intention
You better decide if you want to get circumsized to live
And we kill to get attention
Now go buy yourself a violin
And did you know that it's only an act
Why can't you tell the wealth they do react
Bless your soul if it is still intact
Your body is the gun and your word's are taxed
We can build the prostitute build the abomination
You cannot sell yourself to live
Live with disease drive-in ascension
Win all the things you cannot have
And did you know that it's only an act
Why can't you tell the wealth they do react
Bless your soul if it is still intact
Your body's gone, welcome to the poisoned
What's it to be civilized you seem so sick not civilized
The sick manifestations of raised security
Sit and watch your body twitching
Reject the fallen believers
Injudgement incest ones-heal yourself again
Here's the poison
Welcome to the poisoned
Here's the poison
Welcome to the poisoned
Live here - blameless
Vindiction - copulation - evrydation
Die here - guilt free
Heal together, together
To get your poisoned
Welcome to the poisoned
Here's the poison
Here's the poison
You better decide if you want to get circumsized to live
And we kill to get attention
Now go buy yourself a violin
And did you know that it's only an act
Why can't you tell the wealth they do react
Bless your soul if it is still intact
Your body is the gun and your word's are taxed
We can build the prostitute build the abomination
You cannot sell yourself to live
Live with disease drive-in ascension
Win all the things you cannot have
And did you know that it's only an act
Why can't you tell the wealth they do react
Bless your soul if it is still intact
Your body's gone, welcome to the poisoned
What's it to be civilized you seem so sick not civilized
The sick manifestations of raised security
Sit and watch your body twitching
Reject the fallen believers
Injudgement incest ones-heal yourself again
Here's the poison
Welcome to the poisoned
Here's the poison
Welcome to the poisoned
Live here - blameless
Vindiction - copulation - evrydation
Die here - guilt free
Heal together, together
To get your poisoned
Welcome to the poisoned
Here's the poison
Here's the poison
Lyrics submitted by HoldURBreath
Here's the Poison Lyrics as written by Casey Karim Chmielinski
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Could this perhaps be about parents ("society") leading to the illness in their children??
That is they "kill with good intention", that is they mean well but do not really listen to the needs of the children / ill.
Themes of suicide then run through the song in my opinion. "kill to get attention" (attempted suicide is seen often as a call for help), "it's only an act" that is act in a certain manner because want you (society / parents) to actually hear them before it is too late.
The main themes seem to evolve around a parent / society oblivious to the ills of their words / actions upon society / their children. In the end they are feeding the very "poison" that they are trying to "cure".