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.
People, people, people, people
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
People, people, people, people
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
One love
One love
Lord, got a mother for love
People, people, people, people
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
People, people, people, people
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
One love
One love
Lord, got a mother for love
One love
One love
One love
Lord, got a mother for love
One love
One love...
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
People, people, people, people
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
One love
One love
Lord, got a mother for love
People, people, people, people
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
People, people, people, people
People, people, people, people
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
One love
One love
Lord, got a mother for love
One love
One love
One love
Lord, got a mother for love
One love
One love...
Lyrics submitted by irrelevance10
The Calling Lyrics as written by Chester Thompson Carlos Santana
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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This song is about the enlightened call of a musician.
With dank heady crunchy nugz coffee and vibes.
Santana's signature progression is so top secret even he has limited access. That is why the second half employs the phrygian mode.
Only Frank Zappa with his connection to the conspiracy theorist William Cooper was able to obtain a physical copy. Zappa burned these documents after the recording.
Fuck there's a leading tone in there the hot ratz have failed me they're gonna be in a hamster wheel for the next few days in a fucking bathtub<br /> <br /> It's a training method Zappa writes about in his autobiography. Read it. Page 349 paragraph six.
The ascending 5th is just there because everyone who is a badass puts it in their song.
The name is Bond, James Bond. Hot ratz