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.
I've got a fever, don't breathe on me
I'm a believer of nobody
Won't let me leave 'cause I've seen something
Hope I don't sneeze, I don't
Really we just need to fear something
Only pretending to feel something
I know you're dying to run
I wanna turn you around
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Don't call it a warning, this is a war
It's the parasite eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, ayy ayy
Move
I heard they need better signal
Put chip and pins in the needles
Quarantine all of those secrets
In that black hole you call a brain before it's too late
Really we just wanna scream something
Only pretend to believe something
I know you're baying for blood
I wanna turn you around
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Don't call it a warning, this is a war
It's the parasite eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, ayy ayy
It's the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will
You can board up your windows, you can lock up your doors, yeah
But you can't keep washing your hands of this shit anymore
When all the king's sources and all the king's friends
Don't know their arses from their pathogens
When life is a prison and death is the door
This ain't a warning, this is a war, war
This is a war, ayy ayy, oh-oh
It's the parasite eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, ayy ayy
It's the parasite eve, ayy ayy
It's the parasite eve, ayy ayy
It's the parasite eve, ayy ayy
Ayy ayy, ayy ayy
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
I'm a believer of nobody
Won't let me leave 'cause I've seen something
Hope I don't sneeze, I don't
Really we just need to fear something
Only pretending to feel something
I know you're dying to run
I wanna turn you around
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Don't call it a warning, this is a war
It's the parasite eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, ayy ayy
Move
I heard they need better signal
Put chip and pins in the needles
Quarantine all of those secrets
In that black hole you call a brain before it's too late
Really we just wanna scream something
Only pretend to believe something
I know you're baying for blood
I wanna turn you around
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Don't call it a warning, this is a war
It's the parasite eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, ayy ayy
It's the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will
You can board up your windows, you can lock up your doors, yeah
But you can't keep washing your hands of this shit anymore
When all the king's sources and all the king's friends
Don't know their arses from their pathogens
When life is a prison and death is the door
This ain't a warning, this is a war, war
This is a war, ayy ayy, oh-oh
It's the parasite eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, ayy ayy
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, ayy ayy
It's the parasite eve, ayy ayy
It's the parasite eve, ayy ayy
It's the parasite eve, ayy ayy
Ayy ayy, ayy ayy
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Parasite Eve Lyrics as written by Lee Malia Jordan Fish
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Parasite Eve is the name of a Japanese survival horror roleplaying videogame (and novel), which supposedly was the inspiration behind this song. That being said, presumably, the song now in the throes of the Coronavirus pandemic takes on another meaning entirely. Had it been released last year, it would have sounded like a sci-fi-themed bonus track, but now it reflects the world we’re living in.