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.
I've dreamed about this
Sixteen days away.
Now you're here
And my head lays
Beside your body,
Pillowed under mine.
You were poison,
Spinning 'round my mind.
Welcome to my world
She said
Do you feel alive
She said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head.
Welcome to my world
She said.
Separated world
She stayed separated.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Body withered, body died.
Time to take away this life.
Bad enought to die from one, not to mention four or five.
Welcome to my world
She said
Do you feel alive
She said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head.
Welcome to my world
She said
Separated world
She stayed separated.
Down poison [Repeat: x4]
Down.
You weren't there for me, I was there for you [Repeat: x3]
You weren't there for me, never there for me.
You wouldn't die for me, I've already died for you [Repeat: x3]
You wouldn't die, you wouldn't die, you wouldn't die, no!
Welcome to my world,
She said
Do you feel alive
She said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head
Welcome to my world
She said
Separated world
She stayed separated.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down
Sixteen days away.
Now you're here
And my head lays
Beside your body,
Pillowed under mine.
You were poison,
Spinning 'round my mind.
Welcome to my world
She said
Do you feel alive
She said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head.
Welcome to my world
She said.
Separated world
She stayed separated.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Body withered, body died.
Time to take away this life.
Bad enought to die from one, not to mention four or five.
Welcome to my world
She said
Do you feel alive
She said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head.
Welcome to my world
She said
Separated world
She stayed separated.
Down poison [Repeat: x4]
Down.
You weren't there for me, I was there for you [Repeat: x3]
You weren't there for me, never there for me.
You wouldn't die for me, I've already died for you [Repeat: x3]
You wouldn't die, you wouldn't die, you wouldn't die, no!
Welcome to my world,
She said
Do you feel alive
She said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head
Welcome to my world
She said
Separated world
She stayed separated.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down
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Listening to this song, I think he says You and I, not You wouldn't Die. :| And Home alone, Where the HELL does MONEY come into this?
Idk why this song reminds me of a vampire. Lol
sidebar...: the band's name is 3 doors down, not three doors down. whyyyyy do people post under the three instead of 3? crazy.
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i think this song's about how he got caught up in a girl that he shouldn't have been around, at all. she was bad..she was his drug, his poison. she made him her (welcome to my world). but yeah.. he thought she'd make him happy and for a while maybe he was... but it didn't last.. it never does..
I love this song!
Especially the sentence "you wouldn't die for me i've already died for you"
This song makes me think of my ex-boyfriend...
Actually, I live close to the guys from 3 Doors Down and one of my best friends went to school with Brad Arnold, and this song is about a story in a Biloxi newspaper where a woman slept with a guy and gave him HIV... the next morning, she left him a note saying "welcome to my world" and thats all it said... the rest was just added on
whoa cool story... well not so cool 4 the guy
This means someone used him, its fucken crazy wut someone would do for mony, wut a bitch. I feel sorry for him
This means someone used him, its fucken crazy wut someone would do for mony, wut a bitch. I feel sorry for him
@ Home alone: What got money to do with that? I don't understand. sry
Yeah, this has become my favorite song next to "Learning to Live" by Dream Theater. My ex told me she had AIDS, and didn't really even care. The line "You wouldn't die for me, but I've already died for you" means a lot, I can relate. The first time I heard this song since then I knew exactly what it meant, I wrote a poem about the way it feels with a similar feel.