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.
(The brain goes into shut down)
(Everything you ever were or ever will be)
(Gone)
(I am going to eat your soul)
Sobriety is slipping away
Thread the needle, thread the needle
My sanity is slipping away
Thread the needle, spread the evil
For the psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
(My mind is growing and I can feel it)
Zombie, like a zombie
Now she got me
And I'll never be the same again
Zombie, like a zombie
Like a zombie
And I'll never be the same again
Humanity slipping away
Thread the needle, thread the needle
My sanity is slipping away
Thread the needle, spread the evil
For the psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
(I am going to eat your soul)
Zombie, like a zombie
Now she got me
And I'll never be the same again
Zombie, like a zombie
Like a zombie
Like a bullet through my brain
(I am going to eat your soul)
Zombie, like a zombie
Now she got me
And I'll never be the same again
Zombie, like a zombie
Like a zombie
And I'll never be the same
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
(Everything you ever were or ever will be)
(Gone)
(I am going to eat your soul)
Sobriety is slipping away
Thread the needle, thread the needle
My sanity is slipping away
Thread the needle, spread the evil
For the psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
(My mind is growing and I can feel it)
Zombie, like a zombie
Now she got me
And I'll never be the same again
Zombie, like a zombie
Like a zombie
And I'll never be the same again
Humanity slipping away
Thread the needle, thread the needle
My sanity is slipping away
Thread the needle, spread the evil
For the psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
(I am going to eat your soul)
Zombie, like a zombie
Now she got me
And I'll never be the same again
Zombie, like a zombie
Like a zombie
Like a bullet through my brain
(I am going to eat your soul)
Zombie, like a zombie
Now she got me
And I'll never be the same again
Zombie, like a zombie
Like a zombie
And I'll never be the same
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
Psycho, psycho
She's a psycho, psycho
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Z0mbie Lyrics as written by Koichi Fukuda Ken Jay
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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To me this is about the psychosis like effect of drug addiction & how the abuser can become induced into a zombie like state.