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.
Without wishing to cause you any pain
I got to push on through babe
And if I take the chance of seeing you again
I just don't know what I would do baby
And sometimes I think I'm gonna be just fine
All I got to do is go through it babe.
Then I hear those voices in the back of my mind
Telling me over and over and over that I blew it babe.
You had one chance and you blew it
You may never get another chance
You had the floor and you knew it
You can't blame it on your circumstance
At the risk of causing you a little pain
I'm going to have to forget you, babe
'Cause you broke my heart, left it out in the rain
And you'd the same again if I let you, babe.
I would give anything to hold you in my arms
But you know I can't do that, baby.
I guess I'll have to live with the choice that I have made
Even though deep down I still suspect that I blew it.
I got to push on through babe
And if I take the chance of seeing you again
I just don't know what I would do baby
And sometimes I think I'm gonna be just fine
All I got to do is go through it babe.
Then I hear those voices in the back of my mind
Telling me over and over and over that I blew it babe.
You had one chance and you blew it
You may never get another chance
You had the floor and you knew it
You can't blame it on your circumstance
At the risk of causing you a little pain
I'm going to have to forget you, babe
'Cause you broke my heart, left it out in the rain
And you'd the same again if I let you, babe.
I would give anything to hold you in my arms
But you know I can't do that, baby.
I guess I'll have to live with the choice that I have made
Even though deep down I still suspect that I blew it.
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One Chance Lyrics as written by Simon Climie Eric Patrick Clapton
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