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.
Sweetened possessive farce
Our saints become sparse
An its an option to be transparent
So in your soul that it's inherent
Now that you've found your wings (you want to fly)
Now that I've done those things (you've said goodbye)
it would be ample if only you'd trample
What you could not choke in life
Choke choke choke choke
Now that you've sold your soul
What was the human toll
And oh your sacrifice (your sacrifice)
And oh what my vice (you were)
And it would be ample if you'd only trample
What you could not choke in life
Choke choke choke choke
I could be anyone
I could be anything except for you
Except for you
Anything except for you
No, it had to be a lie it didn't rain twice
The clouds over my head but I'm not dead yet
I could be anyone
I could be anything except for you
Except for except for except for...
Lyrics submitted by eeyore1883, edited by sokorny
Anything But You Lyrics as written by Miguel Rascon Bradley James Fafara
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I take it that someone has hurt them emotionally, and that the narrator can't understand them. How could they do what they did to them?? The narrator just can't believe their actions (or inactions).
Given the genre I'd suggest that it is about an ex-lover hurting them.