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.
Talk to me and watch me crumble
You will see you got mine down
Faithfully I will look over
There I'll find what you've become
(What you've become)
You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Who I've been waiting for
Jealousy will be washed over
Carefully we look on through
Could it be easy to start over
Somehow I will bring you too
(What you've become)
You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Who I've been waiting for
Who I've been waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Who I've been waiting for
(How much longer)
You will see you got mine down
Faithfully I will look over
There I'll find what you've become
(What you've become)
You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Who I've been waiting for
Jealousy will be washed over
Carefully we look on through
Could it be easy to start over
Somehow I will bring you too
(What you've become)
You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Who I've been waiting for
Who I've been waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
I've been waiting waiting waiting
You help me lose my mind
And you believe something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me run back
What if all before
Keep, I need more time
How much longer
Who I've been waiting for
(How much longer)
Lyrics submitted by laurentertaining, edited by hnavarro, linkinfairy, bobbyv2n, midorka
Help Me Lose My Mind Lyrics as written by Guy William Lawrence Hannah Felicity May Reid
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Beautiful hook on the chorus.
It's 'you bring me something I can't define', not 'you believe in something I can't define'.
This song is incredible, it encapsulates that feeling when you meet someone new, someone different. 'You help me lose my mind' is what love should do; it shouldn't be something that makes you worry and scared, it should make you feel safe enough to surrender and lose yourself. 'Make me wonder what I felt before', you wonder how it was you ever thought you were in love when you feel this incredible. The emphasis on the lines "I've been waiting' and 'How much longer?' give the continual impression that this person has been waiting for them all their life, the way most of us wait till we find the right one, or at least the one who makes us feel alive.
I love this song. This is a song about wishing to find the one who will accept you for who you are, faults and all. And in the meantime, before you find that one, this is an awesome upbeat song to keep you hopeful :)
in the chorus, he sounds like the singer of Nothing But Thieves. and I love it. I would love a collab!