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.
Ra ts Hoo,
I wrote a letter to my very own Cinderella
And she had been taken by a dirty thief to quench his cravings.
Thief!
Ra ts hoo
Lost my lover to a hands of a thief
The letter he took from me my only key
He tricked me he tricked her and stole her away
My lover is gone never see her again
Thief!
Ra Ts hoo
I wrote a letter to my very own Cinderella
And my words stolen
By a hooded witch who was eating kids in a forest full of muffins
Lost my lover to the hands of a thief
The letter he took from me my only key
He tricked me and tricked her and stole away
My lover is gone never see her again
I wrote a letter to my very own Cinderella
And she had been taken by a dirty thief to quench his cravings.
Thief!
Ra ts hoo
Lost my lover to a hands of a thief
The letter he took from me my only key
He tricked me he tricked her and stole her away
My lover is gone never see her again
Thief!
Ra Ts hoo
I wrote a letter to my very own Cinderella
And my words stolen
By a hooded witch who was eating kids in a forest full of muffins
Lost my lover to the hands of a thief
The letter he took from me my only key
He tricked me and tricked her and stole away
My lover is gone never see her again
Lyrics submitted by 60_miles_an_hour
Embezzler Lyrics as written by Joshua Delaney Jackson Schumacher
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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“Embezzler is the oldest track on Any Given Weekend. It was written and recorded at the start of 2010 and was one of the first songs we uploaded to triple j unearthed. At first we weren’t sure about the idea of including old material on our debut album, but because this song has been a constant highlight of our live show over the past four years we thought we’d slip it in as a kind of homage to where the band came from.
The lyrics are inspired by an old nursery rhyme infused with some dark themes stemming from some of our personal experience with hallucinogens. It was a nice feeling to end our debut album on the same track that our debut EP began with, like neatly tying off the last knot on the last few years of work.”
From: tonedeaf.com.au/404327/advance-stream-northeast-party-house-any-given-weekend.htm