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 must have read a thousand faces
I must have robbed them of their cause
Sickened thirst, sickened thirst
Keeps it together
Soft white glow in the cranium
A bull's eye made sedated
Beware
Beware
Beware
I must have read a thousand faces
And all these voices won't give up
Sickened thirst, sickened thirst
Glues it together
Catatonic leisure at 1000 miles per hour
Beware
Beware
Beware
So who's in charge in here?
Barking out loud so clear
Because I'd really like to meet him
So who's in charge in here?
In the rear view of this mirror
Because I'd really like to meet him
So who's in charge in here?
Barking out loud so clear
Because I'd really like to meet him
Uproar east
Strike west
Have you ever tasted skin
Sink your, sink your teeth in it
Have you ever tasted skin
Sink your teeth into
Have you ever?
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
I must have robbed them of their cause
Sickened thirst, sickened thirst
Keeps it together
Soft white glow in the cranium
A bull's eye made sedated
Beware
Beware
Beware
I must have read a thousand faces
And all these voices won't give up
Sickened thirst, sickened thirst
Glues it together
Catatonic leisure at 1000 miles per hour
Beware
Beware
Beware
So who's in charge in here?
Barking out loud so clear
Because I'd really like to meet him
So who's in charge in here?
In the rear view of this mirror
Because I'd really like to meet him
So who's in charge in here?
Barking out loud so clear
Because I'd really like to meet him
Uproar east
Strike west
Have you ever tasted skin
Sink your, sink your teeth in it
Have you ever tasted skin
Sink your teeth into
Have you ever?
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
Beware
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This song is incredible.