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.
See the choice, it lies before you
A simple flick of the wrist
Blank doors keep the world at bay
Or do they keep the outside in?
What geometry lies beyond?
A familiar façade, keys in locks
Unhinge the future
Shut out the past
Winners and losers
Fiction and fact
Renegade, our reflections made across a sharpened blade
In a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
To open is to invite the unknown
In to flood your once square home
The walls silently watch you
Are you watching them back?
Windows to the souls surround you
What escapes when those panes crack?
Unhinge the future
Shut out the past
Winners and losers
Fiction and fact
Renegade, our reflections made across a sharpened blade
In a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
Suspicious simulacra distort your flesh and bone
'Cause in a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
You'll run
You'll hide
Or try to
But we all
Reside
Inside you
Renegade, our reflections made across a sharpened blade
In a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
Suspicious simulacra distort your flesh and bone
'Cause in a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
A simple flick of the wrist
Blank doors keep the world at bay
Or do they keep the outside in?
What geometry lies beyond?
A familiar façade, keys in locks
Unhinge the future
Shut out the past
Winners and losers
Fiction and fact
Renegade, our reflections made across a sharpened blade
In a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
To open is to invite the unknown
In to flood your once square home
The walls silently watch you
Are you watching them back?
Windows to the souls surround you
What escapes when those panes crack?
Unhinge the future
Shut out the past
Winners and losers
Fiction and fact
Renegade, our reflections made across a sharpened blade
In a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
Suspicious simulacra distort your flesh and bone
'Cause in a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
You'll run
You'll hide
Or try to
But we all
Reside
Inside you
Renegade, our reflections made across a sharpened blade
In a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
Suspicious simulacra distort your flesh and bone
'Cause in a house of mirrors, you're never alone
Welcome home
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
House of Mirrors Lyrics as written by Christopher Amott Alissa` White-gluz
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"\'House of Mirrors\' is a song that twists its way into the human psyche,” Frontwoman Alissa White-Gluz’ explains. “I wrote the lyrics during a dark time of strict, dystopian lockdown, and I think people will be able to relate to that feeling of being totally alone - but never truly alone - when you are surrounded only by past and future versions of yourself as company."