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.
(Jonathan Davis)
I am watching the rise and fall of my salvation
There's so much shit around me
Such a lack of compassion
I thought it would be fun and games (it would be fun and games)
Instead it's all the same (it's all the same)
I want something to do
Need to feel the sickness in you
I feel the reason as it's leaving me, no, not
again (make me bad)
It's quite decieving as I'm feeling the flesh, make
me bad (make me bad)
(x2)
(Robert Smith)
Yesterday I got so lonely
I felt like I could die
Yesterday away from you
It made me want to cry
Go on, go on, just walk away
Go on, go on, you're choice is made
Go on, go on, and disappear
Go on, go on, away from here
And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn�t be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you
Yesterday I got so scared
I shivered like a child
Yesterday away from you
It froze me deep inside
Come back, come back, don�t walk away
Come back, come back, come back today
Come back, come back, why can�t you see?
Come back, come back, come back to me
And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn�t be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you
(JD)
All I'd do is look for you
I need my fix, you need it to
Just to get some sort of attention, attention
What does it mean to you? (what does it mean to you?)
For me its something I just do (I just so)
I want something
I need to feel the sickness in you
I feel the reason as it's leaving me, no, not
again (make me bad)
It's quite decieving as I'm feeling the flesh, make me bad (make me bad)
I feel the reason as it's leaving me, no, not
again (make me bad)
It's quite decieving as I'm feeling the flesh, make me bad
(JD)
Doesn't make me bad (x4)
(RS)
Come back, come back, don't walk away
Come back, come back, come back today
Why can't you see?
Come back, come back to me
(JD) Without you (x4)
(RS) Make me bad (x3)
I am watching the rise and fall of my salvation
There's so much shit around me
Such a lack of compassion
I thought it would be fun and games (it would be fun and games)
Instead it's all the same (it's all the same)
I want something to do
Need to feel the sickness in you
I feel the reason as it's leaving me, no, not
again (make me bad)
It's quite decieving as I'm feeling the flesh, make
me bad (make me bad)
(x2)
(Robert Smith)
Yesterday I got so lonely
I felt like I could die
Yesterday away from you
It made me want to cry
Go on, go on, just walk away
Go on, go on, you're choice is made
Go on, go on, and disappear
Go on, go on, away from here
And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn�t be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you
Yesterday I got so scared
I shivered like a child
Yesterday away from you
It froze me deep inside
Come back, come back, don�t walk away
Come back, come back, come back today
Come back, come back, why can�t you see?
Come back, come back, come back to me
And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn�t be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you
(JD)
All I'd do is look for you
I need my fix, you need it to
Just to get some sort of attention, attention
What does it mean to you? (what does it mean to you?)
For me its something I just do (I just so)
I want something
I need to feel the sickness in you
I feel the reason as it's leaving me, no, not
again (make me bad)
It's quite decieving as I'm feeling the flesh, make me bad (make me bad)
I feel the reason as it's leaving me, no, not
again (make me bad)
It's quite decieving as I'm feeling the flesh, make me bad
(JD)
Doesn't make me bad (x4)
(RS)
Come back, come back, don't walk away
Come back, come back, come back today
Why can't you see?
Come back, come back to me
(JD) Without you (x4)
(RS) Make me bad (x3)
Lyrics submitted by DLS
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this is the song that makes the whole MTV Unplugged album worth buying. simply amazing.
I totally agree! It's one of my favourites on the mtv unplugged along with thoughtless and freak on a leash! But I like them all lol it's truly amazing the way they twisted the songs to make them acoustic, a little different but still totally recognisable
Devil's Little Sister
ok theres a little story behind this for me...me and my roomate were listening to this cd like we always do with new cds and rate them and talk about them etc etc. when it got to this song we expected the cure doing background stuff seeing it is a korn cd. when the flawlessly tied to two songs together it sent us on a Korn fest, we listened to nothing but korn for a week. GENIOUS idea for a song, my fav on the unplugged.
totally fuking inspired