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.
Time is, time is always there to catch my fall (to catch my fall)
I carry it in something beautiful (something beautiful)
I turn the key into my burial (into my burial)
A cellar door into my open soul (my open soul)
Close the loophole
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
Transform my death into a conduit (into a conduit)
This body separate from the fear of fear
Inside a coping mechanism of monotony
I will destroy the double vision that I was forced to leave
Close the loophole
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
There is a chain that I don't believe in
There is a strain on the tempered ceiling
My lungs are full of the pain of feeling
I can't live in this world while I breathe in another one
So tear my lungs out
Tear my lungs out
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
I carry it in something beautiful (something beautiful)
I turn the key into my burial (into my burial)
A cellar door into my open soul (my open soul)
Close the loophole
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
Transform my death into a conduit (into a conduit)
This body separate from the fear of fear
Inside a coping mechanism of monotony
I will destroy the double vision that I was forced to leave
Close the loophole
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
There is a chain that I don't believe in
There is a strain on the tempered ceiling
My lungs are full of the pain of feeling
I can't live in this world while I breathe in another one
So tear my lungs out
Tear my lungs out
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
Who could've known I would fall so hard starting over?
Loop is closed just to go to the depths
Cold mirror
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Cellar Door Lyrics as written by Dan Braunstein Courtney Laplante
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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I think this is about coming to terms with one's own perceived failures, innermost demons & mortality.