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.
Man's got his woman
To take his seed
He's got the power mmmhmm
She got the need
Spends her life through
Pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner
Yeah, anything she can
she cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women...
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
man make your hair gray
He your life's mistake
All you're really lookin' for
Is an even break, 'cause
he lies right at you
You know you hate his game
Slaps you once in a while
And you live and love in pain
she cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women mmmm...
Only women bleed, you know
Eehh, sweet..sweet mmmmmm....
he lies right at you
You know you hate this game
Slaps you once in a while
And you live and love in pain
she cries alone at night too often
She smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only womennmmmmm...
Only women bleed
Only womennmmmmm..mmmm..
To take his seed
He's got the power mmmhmm
She got the need
Spends her life through
Pleasing up her man
She feeds him dinner
Yeah, anything she can
she cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women...
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
man make your hair gray
He your life's mistake
All you're really lookin' for
Is an even break, 'cause
he lies right at you
You know you hate his game
Slaps you once in a while
And you live and love in pain
she cries alone at night too often
He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only women mmmm...
Only women bleed, you know
Eehh, sweet..sweet mmmmmm....
he lies right at you
You know you hate this game
Slaps you once in a while
And you live and love in pain
she cries alone at night too often
She smokes and drinks and don't come home at all
Only women bleed
Only women bleed
Only womennmmmmm...
Only women bleed
Only womennmmmmm..mmmm..
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Only Women Bleed Lyrics as written by Alice Cooper. Richard Wagner
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