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.
Two brothers
The walking dead
Pray for the silence
Said
One shot to the sky
The other held down
By disguise
Sex for an angry man
To whores they can count
On him
One made of paper
The other glass
One will tear
The other crashed
Oh God, was I that man up
On a cross
Made of steel
Stuck on my wall cold and
Thin
Who watched me die
And did not care
Miles to go before I sleep
The inside marched on
Parade to the outside
Where no one came
What was there, it
Scorched the ground
The other made no sound
The walking dead
Pray for the silence
Said
One shot to the sky
The other held down
By disguise
Sex for an angry man
To whores they can count
On him
One made of paper
The other glass
One will tear
The other crashed
Oh God, was I that man up
On a cross
Made of steel
Stuck on my wall cold and
Thin
Who watched me die
And did not care
Miles to go before I sleep
The inside marched on
Parade to the outside
Where no one came
What was there, it
Scorched the ground
The other made no sound
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Miles Lyrics as written by Tim Cross Mike Cross
Lyrics © Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I believe this song has to do with people with consciences as their recollecting about the sins & bad choices (drugs, guns & hookers) they've made & realizing the weight of what they've done is so heavy. They did these terrible acts feeling like they had almost a god complex & now they have to walk around carrying the guilt from what they have done for the rest of their lives (like god carried the cross).