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 love the way you hurt me
My tears are your wine
Your thoughts would draw my plan for a cruise in vain
Like talons in the pale moon shining above us
The line between pleasure and pain has slowly vanished
As we sink deeper and deeper into a void of your venomous love
Yeah
Yeah, we're gonna fight
We do it every night
Baby, when you scratch
You know I'm gonna bite
You can make me die
I can make you cry
Opposites attract
That's the reason why
No one else could make you feel like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you, as I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Yeah
First we're gonna kiss
Then we're gonna say
Dirty little words
Only lovers say
Rocking through the night
Rolling on the floor
When they hear you screaming
They'll be breaking down the door
No one else could make you feel like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you, as I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Bed of nails
Bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Gonna drive you like a hammer (I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails)
Baby, put me in your slammer, oh, yeah
No one else could make you feel like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you, as I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails (ow)
Bed of nails (damn)
Bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Gonna drive you like a hammer (I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails)
Baby, put me in your slammer, oh, yeah
Our love is a bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
I'll drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
Drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
Our love is a bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
I'll drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
Drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
My tears are your wine
Your thoughts would draw my plan for a cruise in vain
Like talons in the pale moon shining above us
The line between pleasure and pain has slowly vanished
As we sink deeper and deeper into a void of your venomous love
Yeah
Yeah, we're gonna fight
We do it every night
Baby, when you scratch
You know I'm gonna bite
You can make me die
I can make you cry
Opposites attract
That's the reason why
No one else could make you feel like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you, as I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Yeah
First we're gonna kiss
Then we're gonna say
Dirty little words
Only lovers say
Rocking through the night
Rolling on the floor
When they hear you screaming
They'll be breaking down the door
No one else could make you feel like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you, as I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Bed of nails
Bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Gonna drive you like a hammer (I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails)
Baby, put me in your slammer, oh, yeah
No one else could make you feel like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you, as I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails (ow)
Bed of nails (damn)
Bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Gonna drive you like a hammer (I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails)
Baby, put me in your slammer, oh, yeah
Our love is a bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
I'll drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
Drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
Our love is a bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
I'll drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
Drive ya, drive ya, drive ya, drive ya
Lyrics submitted by hydrogen, edited by HecatesNight
Bed of Nails Lyrics as written by Diane Eve Warren Desmond Child
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Realsongs
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This song is about sex. Their relationship is purely sexual (well there is no talk of it meaning anything more).
"No one ever gets as deep inside you, as I do baby"
"I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails"
"Rocking through the night Rolling on the floor When they hear you screaming They'll be breaking down the door "
"Gonna drive you like a hammer Gonna put in my slammer "
All pretty much are saying the same thing, hint the theme of the whole song.