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.
We will trample on our children 'til this world is flooded red
No boundary for depravity, no silence for the dead
Now weep for the life that you've lead
We will follow vacant voices into a shallow grave
Reiterate the verses of some self consuming slave
Now pay for the hell that you praise
Every curse, lie, violation of our lives
Every careless shallow breath, corruption of our minds
All the blood and the shame, defamation of name
The weight of a wicked world embodied on a thankless, crucifix
Embodied on a blood soaked, crucifix, crucifix
The sacrament is broken, and all I see is red
The idols of humanity they tower overhead
Now weep for the life that you've lead
The gates have severed open, setting death upon this place
Compelling us to hope in a revolting human race
Now pay for the hell that you praise
Every curse, lie, violation of our lives
Every careless shallow breath, corruption of our minds
All the blood and the shame, defamation of name
The weight of a wicked world embodied on a thankless, crucifix
Embodied on a blood soaked, crucifix, crucifix
My eyes have seen
Sometimes I close my eyes to escape this crooked place
It seems these fools will never learn
I guess it's easy to see the world the way I do
The emptiness is a promise, the sin is just the proof
Embodied on a thankless, crucifix, crucifix
My eyes have seen
No boundary for depravity, no silence for the dead
Now weep for the life that you've lead
We will follow vacant voices into a shallow grave
Reiterate the verses of some self consuming slave
Now pay for the hell that you praise
Every curse, lie, violation of our lives
Every careless shallow breath, corruption of our minds
All the blood and the shame, defamation of name
The weight of a wicked world embodied on a thankless, crucifix
Embodied on a blood soaked, crucifix, crucifix
The sacrament is broken, and all I see is red
The idols of humanity they tower overhead
Now weep for the life that you've lead
The gates have severed open, setting death upon this place
Compelling us to hope in a revolting human race
Now pay for the hell that you praise
Every curse, lie, violation of our lives
Every careless shallow breath, corruption of our minds
All the blood and the shame, defamation of name
The weight of a wicked world embodied on a thankless, crucifix
Embodied on a blood soaked, crucifix, crucifix
My eyes have seen
Sometimes I close my eyes to escape this crooked place
It seems these fools will never learn
I guess it's easy to see the world the way I do
The emptiness is a promise, the sin is just the proof
Embodied on a thankless, crucifix, crucifix
My eyes have seen
Lyrics submitted by BestiaVenator, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Crucifix Lyrics as written by Ryan Clark
Lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing
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