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.
Night comes like a stranger
It's stranger still that you're not by my side
Cos I can't hear the echo of
Our voices boucning off these walls
And I feel like a ghost that owns this house
It's hard to say when I went wrong but
All that I want for you
Is no more tears
I know I'm the reason why you cry them, dear
I wish that I could rewind.
Wake up to an empty lie
And all the wrong I've done thinking I was right
But nobody can stop me now
I've got no heart for them to occupy
And I can't tell my up from down but
All that I want from you
Is no more tears
I know I'm the reason why you cry them, dear
I wish that I could rewind.
Rewind.
All the words turn to ashes in my mouth
And anything that I could say is bullshit anyhow
I know I don't deserve a heart like yours
the only thing that I could say
the only thing that I could say
Is all I that I want for you
Is no more tears
I know I'm the reason why you cry them, dear
I wish that I could rewind.
Rewind
Rewind
Rewind
It's stranger still that you're not by my side
Cos I can't hear the echo of
Our voices boucning off these walls
And I feel like a ghost that owns this house
It's hard to say when I went wrong but
All that I want for you
Is no more tears
I know I'm the reason why you cry them, dear
I wish that I could rewind.
Wake up to an empty lie
And all the wrong I've done thinking I was right
But nobody can stop me now
I've got no heart for them to occupy
And I can't tell my up from down but
All that I want from you
Is no more tears
I know I'm the reason why you cry them, dear
I wish that I could rewind.
Rewind.
All the words turn to ashes in my mouth
And anything that I could say is bullshit anyhow
I know I don't deserve a heart like yours
the only thing that I could say
the only thing that I could say
Is all I that I want for you
Is no more tears
I know I'm the reason why you cry them, dear
I wish that I could rewind.
Rewind
Rewind
Rewind
Lyrics submitted by stfu mac
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