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.
They tried to make me go to rehab
But I said, "No, no, no"
Yes, I've been black
But when I come back, you'll know, know, know
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab
I won't go, go, go (Pharoahe Monch)
Let's go, get it, uh
Oh nah-nah-nah, no-no-no-no, I can't go-go-go
Go to rehab, you'd just be mad
Drunk in the lobby, Pharoahe my just hurl
Place me with these snobby white girls
Twelve-step program Lindsay Lohan, cold and bitchy Nicole Ritchie
Skin and bones so thin they see through
What the fuck, we have, won't feed you
Believe it, bulimic, anorexic, wash their mouths with antiseptic
No Grey Goose, I wont except it, they say Pharoahe's too eclectic
Prescription drugs, Anna Nicole Smith, cellulose is what I roll with
Pass that here and let me roll one, escape with Mary-Kate Olsen
E-tab, take an extra Motrin, wash that down with a Molson Golden
You sit me here with Britney Spears when rehab really does what? (What? What? What?)
But make you misplace underwear and get her really fucked up, buzz cut (cut, cut, cut, cut)
Make you misplace underwear and get her really fucked up, buzz cut (cut, cut, cut, cut)
They tried to make me go to rehab
But I said, "No, no, no"
I'll take my black ass to rehab
There's no hydro-dro-dro
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab
I won't go, go, go
The man said, "Why do you think you here?"
I said, "I got no idea"
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby
So I always keep a bottle near
He said, "I just think you're depressed"
This me, "Yeah, baby, and the rest"
They tried to make me go to rehab
But I said, "No, no, no"
Yes, I've been black
But when I come back, you'll know, know, know
I don't ever wanna drink again
I just, ooh, I just need a friend
I'm not gonna spend ten weeks
Have everyone think I'm on the mend
And it's not just my pride
It's just 'til these tears have dried
They tried to make me go to rehab
I said, "No, no, no"
I'll take my black ass to rehab
There's no hydro-dro-dro
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
Tried to take my black ass to rehab
I won't go, go, go
But I said, "No, no, no"
Yes, I've been black
But when I come back, you'll know, know, know
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab
I won't go, go, go (Pharoahe Monch)
Let's go, get it, uh
Oh nah-nah-nah, no-no-no-no, I can't go-go-go
Go to rehab, you'd just be mad
Drunk in the lobby, Pharoahe my just hurl
Place me with these snobby white girls
Twelve-step program Lindsay Lohan, cold and bitchy Nicole Ritchie
Skin and bones so thin they see through
What the fuck, we have, won't feed you
Believe it, bulimic, anorexic, wash their mouths with antiseptic
No Grey Goose, I wont except it, they say Pharoahe's too eclectic
Prescription drugs, Anna Nicole Smith, cellulose is what I roll with
Pass that here and let me roll one, escape with Mary-Kate Olsen
E-tab, take an extra Motrin, wash that down with a Molson Golden
You sit me here with Britney Spears when rehab really does what? (What? What? What?)
But make you misplace underwear and get her really fucked up, buzz cut (cut, cut, cut, cut)
Make you misplace underwear and get her really fucked up, buzz cut (cut, cut, cut, cut)
They tried to make me go to rehab
But I said, "No, no, no"
I'll take my black ass to rehab
There's no hydro-dro-dro
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab
I won't go, go, go
The man said, "Why do you think you here?"
I said, "I got no idea"
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby
So I always keep a bottle near
He said, "I just think you're depressed"
This me, "Yeah, baby, and the rest"
They tried to make me go to rehab
But I said, "No, no, no"
Yes, I've been black
But when I come back, you'll know, know, know
I don't ever wanna drink again
I just, ooh, I just need a friend
I'm not gonna spend ten weeks
Have everyone think I'm on the mend
And it's not just my pride
It's just 'til these tears have dried
They tried to make me go to rehab
I said, "No, no, no"
I'll take my black ass to rehab
There's no hydro-dro-dro
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
Tried to take my black ass to rehab
I won't go, go, go
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