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.
Meet your maker
Say something that makes sense
These are your last words
So make them worth the wait
Meet your maker
It's time to set things straight
These are your last words
So make 'em count or it's too late
In time we all disappear
Pushed to the edge
A countdown has begun
At the end of the masquerade
Your time's up, now there's hell to pay
It's only down from here
You think you have a choice but there's no other way
(You think you have a choice but there's no other way)
Meet your maker
As you receive the final key
These are your last words
Are you ready to see what lies beneath?
Meet your maker
Everything else is dead
This is the final moment
All is done, all is said
In time we all disappear
Pushed to the edge
A countdown has begun
At the end of the masquerade
Your time's up, now there's hell to pay
It's only down from here
You think you have a choice but there's no other way
Meet your maker
Say something that makes sense
These are your last words
So make them worth the wait
At the end of the masquerade
Your time's up, now there's hell to pay
It's only down from here
You think you have a choice but there's no other way
Say something that makes sense
These are your last words
So make them worth the wait
Meet your maker
It's time to set things straight
These are your last words
So make 'em count or it's too late
In time we all disappear
Pushed to the edge
A countdown has begun
At the end of the masquerade
Your time's up, now there's hell to pay
It's only down from here
You think you have a choice but there's no other way
(You think you have a choice but there's no other way)
Meet your maker
As you receive the final key
These are your last words
Are you ready to see what lies beneath?
Meet your maker
Everything else is dead
This is the final moment
All is done, all is said
In time we all disappear
Pushed to the edge
A countdown has begun
At the end of the masquerade
Your time's up, now there's hell to pay
It's only down from here
You think you have a choice but there's no other way
Meet your maker
Say something that makes sense
These are your last words
So make them worth the wait
At the end of the masquerade
Your time's up, now there's hell to pay
It's only down from here
You think you have a choice but there's no other way
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Meet Your Maker Lyrics as written by Bjorn Gelotte Anders Friden
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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To die or to pass into the afterlife. The expression in the song's title means, when you're ready to be called to account for your life before God. So if I say I'm "ready to meet my maker", I mean that I am ready to give God an accounting of my life; I am ready die.