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.
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I
I want to go to bed
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don't try to wake me in the morning
Cause I will be gone
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I don't want to wake up
On my own anymore
Sing to me
Sing to me
I don't want to wake up
On my own any more
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I really want to go
There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Bye bye
Sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I
I want to go to bed
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don't try to wake me in the morning
Cause I will be gone
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I don't want to wake up
On my own anymore
Sing to me
Sing to me
I don't want to wake up
On my own any more
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I really want to go
There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Bye bye
Lyrics submitted by cerealiscool
Asleep Lyrics as written by Johnny Marr Steven Morrissey
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I listen to this song on Fag Patrol, and I see the song as being about a the speaker who is very alone and has felt alone for a long time. I'm not sure how old the speaker would be, but I think that the person might be at least in their twenties or thirties, because it seems like they have spent their life trying and failing, and now the person is really to the point where he just feels like giving up. I imagine that this person is singing to no one.
i get the feeling that this personis in his/her early- or midteens, and is angry with his/her mom i think, an is thinking about running away. that this person feels that every thing he/she does just goes wrong, that people take it the wrong way..
thats what i think, and i'm just so inlove with this song..
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oh lord. people need to stop trying so hard to find the hidden meaning! it's very plain, and simply written. it's basically a suicide note, or someone explaining they're about to commit suicide. I'm guessing the person is either taking pills to put them to sleep, and never wake again; either that or the song is speaking of carbon monoxide from a car engine singing him to sleep/death.
I agree that its about suicide. in particular the line "I'm tired and I I want to go to bed" reminds me of the john luc goddard film a bout de soufle
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I must hear thissss nowwww