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 ever so lost
I can't find my way
Been searching, but I have never seen
A turning, a turning from deceit
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
I can't understand myself anymore
'Cause I am still feeling lonely
Feeling so unholy
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
But this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
I'm fooling somebody
A faithless path I roam
Deceiving to breathe this secretly
A silence, this silence I can't bear
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
And this loneliness
Just won't leave me alone
A lady of woe
A lady of woe
I can't find my way
Been searching, but I have never seen
A turning, a turning from deceit
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
I can't understand myself anymore
'Cause I am still feeling lonely
Feeling so unholy
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
But this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
I'm fooling somebody
A faithless path I roam
Deceiving to breathe this secretly
A silence, this silence I can't bear
'Cause the child rose as life
Tried to reveal what I could feel
And this loneliness
It just won't leave me alone, oh no
And this loneliness
Just won't leave me alone
A lady of woe
A lady of woe
Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by kikofcabral
Numb Lyrics as written by Beth Gibbons Adrian Francis Utley
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She's a slut. She doesn't want to get close to a man; she's become numb.
i'm thinking this little comment of yours reflects more about you/your issues than it does any deeper meaning of the song. might wanna work on that