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.
Eminem's gotta cuss in his raps to sell records
Well, me too, so fuck Will Smith
That don't rhyme, drats
Well, me too, so fuck Will Smith
That don't rhyme, drats
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hahahha i love this track, and yay first to comment! i love the new album! kickass.
That's awthum. I have nothing against Eminem, but that was just really funny. It sounds like something my friend would say and I'd point out something completely obvious that they had missed.
It's cuz in Eminem's song "The Real Slim Shady," he has a line that goes "Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records; well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!"