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.
Take it all, take it now, break down
You and me tonight
And just let it alright
Everything that you thought was real
Doesn't make much sense to me
But you know it's alright
Break a promise one more time
Change your mind for just one night
And it's alright
Pull me so close
That I can't feel a thing at all
You won't even miss me when I'm gone
You can take me home
It'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
Waste our time together
Waste our time
Here it is, it'll fade away
Like the high, the fame and friends you made
That don't care
But you and I go fade to black
Let the twilight take us back
To nowhere
'Cause nowhere is the place where we belong together
And nowhere is the space that we can fill forever
And we both know tonight will never make things better
Where everything means nothing anyway
You can take me home
It'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
I don't wanna waste your time
But I don't wanna say goodnight
Tell me just one more lie
Let's spend a lonely night together
I ain't gonna take your life
Nothing's gonna make this right
We can waste our time together
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time together)
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time together)
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time together)
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time)
You can take me home
It'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
You can take me home
And it'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
You and me tonight
And just let it alright
Everything that you thought was real
Doesn't make much sense to me
But you know it's alright
Break a promise one more time
Change your mind for just one night
And it's alright
Pull me so close
That I can't feel a thing at all
You won't even miss me when I'm gone
You can take me home
It'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
Waste our time together
Waste our time
Here it is, it'll fade away
Like the high, the fame and friends you made
That don't care
But you and I go fade to black
Let the twilight take us back
To nowhere
'Cause nowhere is the place where we belong together
And nowhere is the space that we can fill forever
And we both know tonight will never make things better
Where everything means nothing anyway
You can take me home
It'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
I don't wanna waste your time
But I don't wanna say goodnight
Tell me just one more lie
Let's spend a lonely night together
I ain't gonna take your life
Nothing's gonna make this right
We can waste our time together
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time together)
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time together)
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time together)
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
It'll be alright
(Waste our time)
You can take me home
It'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
You can take me home
And it'll be alright
Am I on my own
Or can we live tonight, together?
We can just get high
And we can laugh all night
Don't wanna die alone
So can we live tonight, together?
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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