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.
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby, I'm wasted
All I wanna do is drive home to you
Baby, I'm faded
All I wanna do is take you downtown
Baby
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A few weeks after listening to this song, so that was last month (February 9, 2022), I had a weird dream about pregnancy... I was going to be a mother with my fiancé, 5 months pregnant with our first child at 36. I was at some closure event, without my fiancé though, the day before I announced my followers I was expecting a girl, without posting photos - those paparazzi made the closure photos leak. It was so weird seeing myself in photo, how my mummy belly showed under the form-fitting T-shirt... Either I decide to have a kid or delete it from my consciousness, the former would make it worse and the latter is happiness. But I\'m not pregnant. Some days I just have weird dreams.