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.
Synchronicity invading my surroundings
I can see history repeating
Time breaks down
I swear I've seen this all before
Lived every ending in my head
A steady pace on a familiar path
But in a place I know I've never been
(If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable)
Just like a shout in the dark
We echo
Into the ether
Until we fade like a spark
We echo
Into forever
Connected beyond consciousness
Throughout time and space
Maybe we've lived this all before
Maybe past and present are all the same
(What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present)
(Footfalls echo in the memory)
(My words echo thus, in your mind)
Just like a shout in the dark
We echo
Into the ether
Until we fade like a spark
We echo
Into forever
One ancient melody repeating
Ad infinitum
We were once the same note
But now we echo
Into forever
I can see history repeating
Time breaks down
I swear I've seen this all before
Lived every ending in my head
A steady pace on a familiar path
But in a place I know I've never been
(If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable)
Just like a shout in the dark
We echo
Into the ether
Until we fade like a spark
We echo
Into forever
Connected beyond consciousness
Throughout time and space
Maybe we've lived this all before
Maybe past and present are all the same
(What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present)
(Footfalls echo in the memory)
(My words echo thus, in your mind)
Just like a shout in the dark
We echo
Into the ether
Until we fade like a spark
We echo
Into forever
One ancient melody repeating
Ad infinitum
We were once the same note
But now we echo
Into forever
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Echo Lyrics as written by Alan Ashby Aaron Pauley
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Here\'s what the band themselves says of this track, which is also the title track of the album it\'s on; "Echo is a snapshot of the last year-and-a-half of our lives. It covers loss and growth, life and impermanence, love, and the infinite - how the most wonderful and most tragic parts of the human experience are deeply intertwined."