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.
If your life is a record, people and places are the songs
There'll be slow and there'll be fast ones
Lookin' forward, lookin' back ones
On that tiny two-line town that you call home
They'll all make sense when they're together
If your life is a record
I'll be the sad song, your "good love gone bad" song
The part of your heart that's bittersweet
Couldn't be your happy song, but at least we had a song
So I'll be the sad song when you sing
Some night, when it's raining, your movin' on song's fast asleep
You'll pour a glass of something and let your heart start running
To that summer at that bar on Division Street
That last verse, you'll wanna change it
Some night, when it's raining
I'll be the sad song, your "good love gone bad" song
The part of your heart that's bittersweet
Couldn't be your happy song, but at least we had a song
So I'll be the sad song you sing
If your life is a record, people and places are the songs
I'll be your sad song, your "what we almost had" song
Your "might've been but wasn't meant to be"
Couldn't be your happy song, but at least we had a song
So I'll be the sad you sing
'Cause you'll always be that song to me
There'll be slow and there'll be fast ones
Lookin' forward, lookin' back ones
On that tiny two-line town that you call home
They'll all make sense when they're together
If your life is a record
I'll be the sad song, your "good love gone bad" song
The part of your heart that's bittersweet
Couldn't be your happy song, but at least we had a song
So I'll be the sad song when you sing
Some night, when it's raining, your movin' on song's fast asleep
You'll pour a glass of something and let your heart start running
To that summer at that bar on Division Street
That last verse, you'll wanna change it
Some night, when it's raining
I'll be the sad song, your "good love gone bad" song
The part of your heart that's bittersweet
Couldn't be your happy song, but at least we had a song
So I'll be the sad song you sing
If your life is a record, people and places are the songs
I'll be your sad song, your "what we almost had" song
Your "might've been but wasn't meant to be"
Couldn't be your happy song, but at least we had a song
So I'll be the sad you sing
'Cause you'll always be that song to me
Lyrics submitted by gogogadget34
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