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.
Porno king and queen
Living in the luxury commode
High above the city
Where they rape each others throne
Be it a swollen rod
Or a sopping hole
Said a prelude to a kiss
Your majesty will come thrust
Up inside your sexual abyss
Working in the sack
Will never break your back
When you’re a gigolo
And a business man
No overtime and no cut backs
When you’re a gigolo
And a business man
We’ll fuck all day
We fuck all night
To feed this motherfucking appetite
S&M a leather gimp before you leave
You must pay the pimp
And if I go a little deeper baby
I’ll never go too far
And if I go a little deeper baby
You might be a star
Living in the luxury commode
High above the city
Where they rape each others throne
Be it a swollen rod
Or a sopping hole
Said a prelude to a kiss
Your majesty will come thrust
Up inside your sexual abyss
Working in the sack
Will never break your back
When you’re a gigolo
And a business man
No overtime and no cut backs
When you’re a gigolo
And a business man
We’ll fuck all day
We fuck all night
To feed this motherfucking appetite
S&M a leather gimp before you leave
You must pay the pimp
And if I go a little deeper baby
I’ll never go too far
And if I go a little deeper baby
You might be a star
Lyrics submitted by EmbryoSystem
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The song seems to alternate between being sung from the point of the gigolo and the porn star ...
Do porn stars have gigolos though?? I thought they were mainly for sex workers ... or is this implying that the worker is moving from the streets to the silver screen (becoming a star)?