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.
Come and see me and maybe you'll die
But I can keep you in artwork, the fluid kind
That's enough for excitements today
Prostrated faded, it's pay-to-play
Come and see me yeah, maybe you'll try
I've been holding these pyros till they could fly
Open up and enlighten again
Enjoy the skyline, it's an incremental end
Walk in on your own feet
Says the rover
It's my way or they all leave
Says the rover (ooh)
The rover
Ça suffit, hell yeah, maybe it's time
You can't stick to the highways, it's suicide
I'm welling up with excitements again
The apex resolves, you need to tell your friends
Walk in on your own feet
Says the rover
It's my way or they all leave
Says the rover
The rover (ooh, ooh)
The rover (ooh, ooh)
The rover
Come and see me, yeah baby, let's cry
Satin face in some worlds we'd be too kind
Nature's subjected to fires again
Falling for my independence
Walk in on your own feet
Says the rover
You were high and on the wrong street
Till the rover
Said hop in, all in (ooh, ooh)
The rover
Hop in, all in (ooh, ooh)
The rover
The rover
All in, all in (ooh, ooh)
The rover
He barely has to seek repentants
But I can keep you in artwork, the fluid kind
That's enough for excitements today
Prostrated faded, it's pay-to-play
Come and see me yeah, maybe you'll try
I've been holding these pyros till they could fly
Open up and enlighten again
Enjoy the skyline, it's an incremental end
Walk in on your own feet
Says the rover
It's my way or they all leave
Says the rover (ooh)
The rover
Ça suffit, hell yeah, maybe it's time
You can't stick to the highways, it's suicide
I'm welling up with excitements again
The apex resolves, you need to tell your friends
Walk in on your own feet
Says the rover
It's my way or they all leave
Says the rover
The rover (ooh, ooh)
The rover (ooh, ooh)
The rover
Come and see me, yeah baby, let's cry
Satin face in some worlds we'd be too kind
Nature's subjected to fires again
Falling for my independence
Walk in on your own feet
Says the rover
You were high and on the wrong street
Till the rover
Said hop in, all in (ooh, ooh)
The rover
Hop in, all in (ooh, ooh)
The rover
The rover
All in, all in (ooh, ooh)
The rover
He barely has to seek repentants
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