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.
When the morning sun streaks across my room
And I've waken up from another dream of you
Yes I'm on the road, once again it seems
All I've left behind, is a chain of broken dream
But you know I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
How I wish that love, is all we need to live
What a life we'd live, 'cause I've got so much to give
And it seems so wrong, deep inside my heart
That the dollar sign could be keeping us apart
When you know I love
Yes I love you
And if I could only find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life of mine didn't cross our minds
All the answers were found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you, I'd come running back to you
But you know we can't live on dreams alone
Just to pay the rent, I must leave you all alone
But you know I made me choice many years ago
And this traveling life is the only one I know
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
And I've waken up from another dream of you
Yes I'm on the road, once again it seems
All I've left behind, is a chain of broken dream
But you know I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
How I wish that love, is all we need to live
What a life we'd live, 'cause I've got so much to give
And it seems so wrong, deep inside my heart
That the dollar sign could be keeping us apart
When you know I love
Yes I love you
And if I could only find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life of mine didn't cross our minds
All the answers were found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you, I'd come running back to you
But you know we can't live on dreams alone
Just to pay the rent, I must leave you all alone
But you know I made me choice many years ago
And this traveling life is the only one I know
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
But you know, I love you
Yes I love you, oh I love you
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
But You Know I Love You [Bonus Track] Lyrics as written by Mike Settle
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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