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.
I am the red in the rose, the flowers
On the blankets on your bedroom floor.
And I am the gray in the ghost that hides
With your clothes behind your closet door.
I am the green in the grass that bends back
From underneath your feet.
And I am the blue in your back alley view
Where the horizon and the rooftops meet.
If you cut me I suppose I would bleed the colors
Of the evening stars.
You can go anywhere you wish cause I'll be there, wherever you are.
(Wherever you are) [Repeat x2]
(I will always be your gaze
When we are lost in the Technicolor phase)
I am the black in the book
The letters on the pages that you memorize.
And I am the orange in the overcast
Of color that you visualize.
I am the white in the walls that soak up
All the sound when you cannot sleep.
And I am the peach in the starfish on the beach
That wish the harbor wasn't quite so deep.
If you cut me I suppose I would bleed the colors
Of the evening stars. (my darling)
You can go anywhere you wish cause I'll be there, wherever you are. (My darling)
(Wherever you are) [Repeat x3]
On the blankets on your bedroom floor.
And I am the gray in the ghost that hides
With your clothes behind your closet door.
I am the green in the grass that bends back
From underneath your feet.
And I am the blue in your back alley view
Where the horizon and the rooftops meet.
If you cut me I suppose I would bleed the colors
Of the evening stars.
You can go anywhere you wish cause I'll be there, wherever you are.
(Wherever you are) [Repeat x2]
(I will always be your gaze
When we are lost in the Technicolor phase)
I am the black in the book
The letters on the pages that you memorize.
And I am the orange in the overcast
Of color that you visualize.
I am the white in the walls that soak up
All the sound when you cannot sleep.
And I am the peach in the starfish on the beach
That wish the harbor wasn't quite so deep.
If you cut me I suppose I would bleed the colors
Of the evening stars. (my darling)
You can go anywhere you wish cause I'll be there, wherever you are. (My darling)
(Wherever you are) [Repeat x3]
Lyrics submitted by panic! lets rave.
The Technicolor Phase Lyrics as written by Adam R. Young
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I completely agree with you. I interpret it as God telling us he is everywhere. God is love, God is everything around us, so it makes the most sense to me. "You can go anywhere you wish cause I'll be there, wherever you are." God is really with us all the time!<br /> <br /> This could be about a girl, too, but as our human relationships are just foreshadowings of our marriage to God in Heaven, I think it relates either way.<br /> <br /> This is a really cool way of expressing love. Basically, it's saying I am all the beauty you see around you. I am part of all the material things you see and feel.
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I completely agree!<br /> That was my first thought.<br /> I love this song.<br /> It really makes you realize all of His many creations.<br /> <3
This song is multy-interpretable.. So It is make sense to identified with all those things above. And for Adam; you are really unbelievable!!
Great Song! honestly i believe (like many others on here that the song can mean many things to different poeple, a song is interpreted by the listener) I think Adam is personally trying to capture a strangely, fascinating way of how God is in the many things in the world we view. For instance "Im am the black in the book (the bible), the letters on the pages that you memorize". God is omnipresent, everywhere is especially in the beauty of nature and simple everyday things that make us smile and able to deal with life...
I believe that is talking about a "phase" of love like any where that this girl goes he'll be there with her in spirit because they're so in love and this song is a way of reminding her that no matter what he will always be right there next to her in her heart and soul
this has got to be some of the sweetest music in the whole wide world
like wow this is like saying I Love You in a very sweet way
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The way the song opens comparing himself to the colors that is seen all around his girl makes me think that they like each other so much that they see each other in everything. In just walking around they see each other even in the simplest of things.
"If you cut me I suppose I would bleed, the color of the evening stars." Admitting to being human and then shrugging it off and once again comparing himself to the stars, they see each other in everything.
Wow, that makes sense. I never thought of it that way.
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I imagine that what he refers to as the "technicolor phase" could be as such: A state of perception; human; alive; able to experience, feel, memorize and recall.
In this case: technicolor - beautifully intricate and perceivable phase - a temporary period of time where we as humans are able to perceive this world, unknowing exactly of what will come after departure
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Is it just me or is this song about the sun and the visible light spectrum?
Just you.