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.
Yes it's me
I am the one
To make you see
Where we belong
I was shaking
Like a leaf
All wrapped up
In my dirty sheets
If I agree to what comes next
I would be faking
With the best of them
It seems a crime
I would commit
Without the difference
Of all the world's gifts
Sweet sweet sweet
Could you taste it
Never never never
Never never never (taste it)
To dream
All the time
Without a scream
In the dead of night
All those faces
Come back to me
I'll be begging
To swim that sea
Yea I made
A picture story
Make you cry
In all your glory
A need to quench
The thirst of many
To justify
And make ready
Sweet sweet sweet
Could you taste it
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
This realization
Owes us strength to show
If you're uncertain
You're invited to believe
These are the words I speak
These are the words I speak
A dislocation
From where we once came from
Give sons and daughters
Because we want to go on
These are the words she speaks
These are the words she speaks
Sweet sweet sweet
Could you taste it
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never
Never never never
I am the one
To make you see
Where we belong
I was shaking
Like a leaf
All wrapped up
In my dirty sheets
If I agree to what comes next
I would be faking
With the best of them
It seems a crime
I would commit
Without the difference
Of all the world's gifts
Sweet sweet sweet
Could you taste it
Never never never
Never never never (taste it)
To dream
All the time
Without a scream
In the dead of night
All those faces
Come back to me
I'll be begging
To swim that sea
Yea I made
A picture story
Make you cry
In all your glory
A need to quench
The thirst of many
To justify
And make ready
Sweet sweet sweet
Could you taste it
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
This realization
Owes us strength to show
If you're uncertain
You're invited to believe
These are the words I speak
These are the words I speak
A dislocation
From where we once came from
Give sons and daughters
Because we want to go on
These are the words she speaks
These are the words she speaks
Sweet sweet sweet
Could you taste it
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never (taste it)
Never never never
Never never never
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Nobody has commented on this song yet?! I LOVE it!!
I like it too...but what is it about exactly? I guess something about appreciating life's joys, trying to make a difference in the world, trying to find your place in the world...possibly a religious overtone?
This song was about Michael Hutchence, literally being unable to taste.
I believe it was either 1994 or 1995 when he was king hit from behind by a taxi driver. Michael was out riding his bike in the South of France and refused to move off to the side of the road. The taxi driver got out and hit him in the back of the head which resulted in a concussion.
He lost both taste and smell senses.
From that moment on, he became a different person. He suffered depression.
The song is from 1992, Michael was hit the same year in Denmark, I don't know whether the album was released after the incident and the song refers to it.
Yet another INXS song that doesn't leave your head for a day. It literally kept me awake at night... I lay in bed trying to sleep but all I could hear was "Sweet, sweet, sweet, could you taste it?"
This song is about never being satisfied (either sexually or just in general), and the never ending quest to find satisfaction. Add guilt to that quest, and it leaves you feeling rather empty. Very similar to the lyric in the song "Time" from the FMDH album. "Just when you taste it, you turn to walk away". Quite a depressing song in that context.
Apparently stems from a comment Michael Hutchins made to a band mate after losing his sense of taste and smell regarding never being able to taste or smell his current lover at the time, that is if you believe the tele movie they just showed here in Oz.
To be honest I think it has a double meaning one re losing his sense of taste and smell and also the hollow feeling of having casual affairs or being with some one you have no feeling for.
It seems that we all chase that elusive feeling of love and the sensation. Of it to me so it makes sense.
Michael was a very talented yet abstrAct poet or lyricist.
Then again it could all just be random stuff he thought fitted with Andrews music. We will never really know I suppose.
A friend once told me that he felt this song had duel lyrics , with one being Eve tasting the Apple in the Garden of Eden. "This is a crime, I will commit, it will make the difference of all the world's gifts "