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've got a new age girl (tell us what she's like)
Environmentalist girl (does she ride a bike?)
She has crystal necklace (does she spend a lot of cash?)
Though her vibes are rather reckless (she's heading for a crash)
Oh, her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind
And she wonders without knowing where did she begin
Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, she loves me so, she hates to be alone
Don't eat meat but she sure like the bone
You knew she drives a wind car (how does she like it?)
It doesn't get her far (why doesn't she bike it?)
But it gets her to where she's going to
(I don't know, I don't know, I don't know)
Where that is, wish I knew
Don't know where she's going
And I don't know where she's been
All I know that loving her has gotta be a sin
Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, she loves me so, she hates to be alone
Don't eat meat but she sure like the bone
Mary Moon, will you hesitate?
Don't segregate your thought from your emotions (Mary Moon)
I know that devotion isn't way up there
Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon, she's an intellectual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon, despite that fact remains quite sexual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, Mary Moon
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
She's the one for me, me, oh
Environmentalist girl (does she ride a bike?)
She has crystal necklace (does she spend a lot of cash?)
Though her vibes are rather reckless (she's heading for a crash)
Oh, her flowing skirt is blowing in a transcendental wind
And she wonders without knowing where did she begin
Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, she loves me so, she hates to be alone
Don't eat meat but she sure like the bone
You knew she drives a wind car (how does she like it?)
It doesn't get her far (why doesn't she bike it?)
But it gets her to where she's going to
(I don't know, I don't know, I don't know)
Where that is, wish I knew
Don't know where she's going
And I don't know where she's been
All I know that loving her has gotta be a sin
Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, she loves me so, she hates to be alone
Don't eat meat but she sure like the bone
Mary Moon, will you hesitate?
Don't segregate your thought from your emotions (Mary Moon)
I know that devotion isn't way up there
Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon will outlive all the septuagenarians
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon, she's an intellectual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon, despite that fact remains quite sexual
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Oh, Mary Moon
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
Mary Moon
(Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon)
She's the one for me, me, oh
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i have no idea who exaclty this artist is...all i am gonna comment is that the name of the band is the title of a good Kurt Vonnegut Jr. book, and if these guys read that then they couldn't be half bad....