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.
Did you really think that
I would really take you back
Let you back in my heart
One more time, oh, no no
Did you think I'd still care
That there'd be more feeling there
Did you think you could walk back
In my life, oh
So you found you missed the love you threw away
Baby, but you found it out too late, too late
And so you know the way it feels to cry
The way that I cried when you broke my world in two
And baby I learned the way to break a heart
I learned from the best, I learned from you
Oh baby, now, I learned from you
I remember cold nights
Tears I thought would never dry
How you shattered my world
With your goodbye, your goodbye
Would a sold my soul then
Just to have you back again
Now you are the last thing on my mind
Now you say you're sorry and you've
Changed your ways
Sorry but you changed your ways too late
And so you know the way it feels to cry
The way that I cried when you broke my world in two
And baby I learned the way to break a heart
I learned from the best, I learned from you
Oh baby, now, I learned from you
So when all you've got are sleepless night
When those tears are clouding up your eyes
Just remember it was you
Who said goodbye, who said goodbye
And so you know the way it feels to cry
The way that I cried when you broke my world in two
And baby I learned the way to break a heart
I learned from the best, I learned from you
Oh baby, now, I learned from you
I learned from the best
I learned from you
I would really take you back
Let you back in my heart
One more time, oh, no no
Did you think I'd still care
That there'd be more feeling there
Did you think you could walk back
In my life, oh
So you found you missed the love you threw away
Baby, but you found it out too late, too late
And so you know the way it feels to cry
The way that I cried when you broke my world in two
And baby I learned the way to break a heart
I learned from the best, I learned from you
Oh baby, now, I learned from you
I remember cold nights
Tears I thought would never dry
How you shattered my world
With your goodbye, your goodbye
Would a sold my soul then
Just to have you back again
Now you are the last thing on my mind
Now you say you're sorry and you've
Changed your ways
Sorry but you changed your ways too late
And so you know the way it feels to cry
The way that I cried when you broke my world in two
And baby I learned the way to break a heart
I learned from the best, I learned from you
Oh baby, now, I learned from you
So when all you've got are sleepless night
When those tears are clouding up your eyes
Just remember it was you
Who said goodbye, who said goodbye
And so you know the way it feels to cry
The way that I cried when you broke my world in two
And baby I learned the way to break a heart
I learned from the best, I learned from you
Oh baby, now, I learned from you
I learned from the best
I learned from you
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Cool song... I really like it :)
This song is so me