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 not awake
But I'm not dead
The drugs are late
Lost my money again
They never gave you anything
You'd think you get the fucking point
I'll laugh until I'm fucking killed
I see the point but I can't find a way
To get through this fucking mental hell!!!
I'm not alright, but I'm OK
[x2]
All hail the pessimist
All hail the anarchist
All hail the rest that never gave
A motherfuckin' shit
It's killing season
Time to celebrate
What better way than to
Rid the world of all the walking waste
Wanna see it
I'll show you something
A middle finger
With a barrel and it's fucking cocked
I got a new way
So you can fuck yourself
Kill the motherfucker - all that I think about, yeah!
I'm not alright, but I'm OK
[x2]
Sometimes
You gotta voice your revenge
Or you're better off dead
You'll lose your fucking mind
Sometimes
You gotta look at yourself
See the world inside out
And scream out loud
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
And that's all that I think about [x2]
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Cause we all need to scream out loud
I'm not alright, but I'm OK
[x2]
I found the easy way to die
Just educate myself and pretend
All I've learned's untrue
And yeah, I know that
All I'll lose is you
Have you ever loved something
That never seemed to
Have a face at all
It just screams out loud.....yeah!
It always cures the pain that would never leave
Then causes even more
It just screams out loud
But never goes away!
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
And that's all that I think about
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
But I'm not dead
The drugs are late
Lost my money again
They never gave you anything
You'd think you get the fucking point
I'll laugh until I'm fucking killed
I see the point but I can't find a way
To get through this fucking mental hell!!!
I'm not alright, but I'm OK
[x2]
All hail the pessimist
All hail the anarchist
All hail the rest that never gave
A motherfuckin' shit
It's killing season
Time to celebrate
What better way than to
Rid the world of all the walking waste
Wanna see it
I'll show you something
A middle finger
With a barrel and it's fucking cocked
I got a new way
So you can fuck yourself
Kill the motherfucker - all that I think about, yeah!
I'm not alright, but I'm OK
[x2]
Sometimes
You gotta voice your revenge
Or you're better off dead
You'll lose your fucking mind
Sometimes
You gotta look at yourself
See the world inside out
And scream out loud
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
And that's all that I think about [x2]
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Cause we all need to scream out loud
I'm not alright, but I'm OK
[x2]
I found the easy way to die
Just educate myself and pretend
All I've learned's untrue
And yeah, I know that
All I'll lose is you
Have you ever loved something
That never seemed to
Have a face at all
It just screams out loud.....yeah!
It always cures the pain that would never leave
Then causes even more
It just screams out loud
But never goes away!
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
And that's all that I think about
That motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Kill that motherfucker
Lyrics submitted by Hardcore_Icon
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I can see the drug references in the song ... is "the motherfucker" that they want to kill their addiction??
The song definitely seems directly referencing a particular "motherfucker". It isn't drugs / addiction is there a particular person the band would be referring too?? (President, Pope, an actual murderer, child molester etc.)
It is hard to work out whether the song relates to metaphorically killing something (e.g. an addiction) or about someone actually killing the dregs of society and justifying it (well trying too).