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.
So if my eyes are sewn
Just let me be
Don't say a word, I go alone
And if you think it's so wrong
Just draw the line and warn the world
The kill is on
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place,
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie to us all
For all the seasons you have lost
You beg for time
You waste the words
(Just let it go)
And on your dying
You hold the line,
Forget the world
You're on your own
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place,
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie to us all
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place,
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie to us all
Just let me be
Don't say a word, I go alone
And if you think it's so wrong
Just draw the line and warn the world
The kill is on
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place,
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie to us all
For all the seasons you have lost
You beg for time
You waste the words
(Just let it go)
And on your dying
You hold the line,
Forget the world
You're on your own
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place,
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie to us all
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie
Beneath this wonderful lie you mastered
You find a dark place,
To throw away all the light like a coward
Your miracle's a lie to us all
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My immediate interpretation of these lyrics is the writer was referring to his disbelief in a god. The miracle of Christ is a lie is what I think the chorus is trying to get across. Either the writer never truly believed in God or he's had some really bad stuff happen in their life and even after praying to God the situation never got better or resolved itself so he's saying to God, that you're not a savior as the Bible claims. He could also be just making a general commentary of how all the stuff goes on in this world such as terrorism and such to even the best most God fearing people and they still blindly believe in the the miracle of Christ and he's saying he thinks when things go there worse even the lord finds a dark place to cower while the storm blows over. And on you're dying - that lines referencing how he considered a hero for being crucified for our sins and this line is saying that the the whole encounter of his dying for our sins may also be a lie.