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 farther I go
The less I know
One foot goes in front of the other
It all boils around to not hanging around
To keep moving in front of the gravity
The answer is there the answer
Is there but there is not a fixed
Position it keeps moving along so
I keep coming along and that's why
I'm a long distance runner and if
I stop to catch my breath I might
Catch a piece of death I can't
Keep your pace if I want to finish
This race my fight's not with it it's
With the gravity long distance runner
The less I know
One foot goes in front of the other
It all boils around to not hanging around
To keep moving in front of the gravity
The answer is there the answer
Is there but there is not a fixed
Position it keeps moving along so
I keep coming along and that's why
I'm a long distance runner and if
I stop to catch my breath I might
Catch a piece of death I can't
Keep your pace if I want to finish
This race my fight's not with it it's
With the gravity long distance runner
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This song is about the nature of the universe and how its fundamental laws just seem to happen in mostly uniform ways for reasons we don't fully understand. Chemistry. Physics. Linear time. Relativity! Seriously, what is going on here? The answer is there, just out of our reaches.