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.
She want to move to California
She must've fucking lost her mind
She want to move to California
That's how they get you every time
She make a movie with her friends
Put it up in a minute
Everybody say it now ain't no loop at the minute
Everybody saying, "How, how you do it, you did it?"
I'ma show you what it done, but enough for a finish
Pay attention, you listen
You keep losing your mind
How you want to loop this shit but looking like a Vine?
But they no pay for no privilege, now she broke in Korea Town
In the condo you rented, better get your percentage
In California, oh
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
All the people all around and the follower people
I go watching "ha ha" make girlfriend giggle
Make her feel so official, make it Serena Vista
Supernova, new residual, making money a little
Make smoker illegal, make living illegal
Make laughing illegal, make it snap for a people
When you make a movie now, know you making no difference
It's a tickle on the mind 'fore me finish the sentence
So go pimp a like on Vine, but don't pay for the privilege
Now you broke in Korea Town, in the condo you rented
Better get your percentage
Oh, you broke in Korea Town in that condo you rented
Better get your percentage
In California
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
She must've fucking lost her mind
She want to move to California
That's how they get you every time
She make a movie with her friends
Put it up in a minute
Everybody say it now ain't no loop at the minute
Everybody saying, "How, how you do it, you did it?"
I'ma show you what it done, but enough for a finish
Pay attention, you listen
You keep losing your mind
How you want to loop this shit but looking like a Vine?
But they no pay for no privilege, now she broke in Korea Town
In the condo you rented, better get your percentage
In California, oh
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
All the people all around and the follower people
I go watching "ha ha" make girlfriend giggle
Make her feel so official, make it Serena Vista
Supernova, new residual, making money a little
Make smoker illegal, make living illegal
Make laughing illegal, make it snap for a people
When you make a movie now, know you making no difference
It's a tickle on the mind 'fore me finish the sentence
So go pimp a like on Vine, but don't pay for the privilege
Now you broke in Korea Town, in the condo you rented
Better get your percentage
Oh, you broke in Korea Town in that condo you rented
Better get your percentage
In California
She must've fucking lost her mind, yeah
He want to move to California
He want to hang with DC Fly
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
California Lyrics as written by Ludwig Emil Tomas Goransson Donald Mckinley Ii Glover
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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It's like he's rapping and singing at the same time