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 can tell you what they say in space;
that our Earth is too grey.
But when the spirit is so digital,
the body acts this way.
That world was killing me, world was killing me.
Disassociative.
The nervous system's down, the nervous system's down,
and I know...
The nervous system's down, the nervous system's down,
and I know...
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
Sometimes we walk like we were shot
through our heads, my love.
We write a song in space like we
are already dead and gone.
That world was killing me, world was killing me.
Disassociative.
That world was killing me, world was killing me.
Disassociative.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
The nervous system's down. The nervous system's down.
The nervous system's down. The nervous system's down.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
that our Earth is too grey.
But when the spirit is so digital,
the body acts this way.
That world was killing me, world was killing me.
Disassociative.
The nervous system's down, the nervous system's down,
and I know...
The nervous system's down, the nervous system's down,
and I know...
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
Sometimes we walk like we were shot
through our heads, my love.
We write a song in space like we
are already dead and gone.
That world was killing me, world was killing me.
Disassociative.
That world was killing me, world was killing me.
Disassociative.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
The nervous system's down. The nervous system's down.
The nervous system's down. The nervous system's down.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
I can never get out of here.
Don't wanna just float in fear.
Dead astronaut in space.
Lyrics submitted by King Nothing
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Well, in my opinion this song is about being a young & maybe a little naive &/or introverted girl and finding yourself loving a man who is at first very charming, carefree & outgoing, and seems at first to be without limits, as in
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you opened up every doorway
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but I know
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if you leave me alone", so you want to save them but can't get through to them due to the addiction &/or emotional problems they have,
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and that's not enough
love in a vacuum
You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
You will be lonely
if you leave me alone
You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
it's just not enough"
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"You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
it's just not enough
and just wait
you will be lonely
Love in a vacuum
Love in a vacuum
and that's not enough
Love in a vacuum".
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
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Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
i think this song is describing the state of the world we have come to, by bieng so materialistic and less in faith of our own beliefs what ever they may be.Also lonliness kills the mind like a cancer bec. of the way some societies imbarge on a person. so in conclusion i say to anyone feelling shung out of the world to embrace this song!!!
everybody needs to stop with this bullshit, ohh its not about drugs blahblah, i only listen to MM when im loaded and i gota tell you unless your loaded on drugs your not goin to be able to describe this music. when i listen to all of his music i do it after ive had absinthe or something he would have consumed prior to writing these songs, its not the meaning hes conveing its the emotional response hes lookin for. Trust Me. get loaded up on some drugs, drink some absinthe kick back and enjoy the felling you get. plus all of MM stuff is Media whoring its called free adevertising =) but ya do whatever you want to each his own........
Spot on Creaper. You might thoroughly enjoy reading Richard Stiver's "Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society". Interestingly, your comment predates the 2004 publication of his book which share your general thesis.
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I know what this song is about, i personally ask Marilyn the other day when i found him in the bathroom in a restaurant in L.A., he stopped to explain very nicely, I guess because I did not ask for an autograph, he prefers that make you the talk rather than be asked for an autograph and idolize him, well he also likes that, he is a diva, but has become something more condescending with good conversationalists, well he tell me that he was talking about the serious problem which represents a polluted blogsphere and virtual discussions in the air, is a deep environ-mental problem, and all of you idolater fans, will know how is manson concerning with these questions having to do with natural resources.
I know what this song is about, i personally ask Marilyn the other day when i found him in the bathroom in a restaurant in L.A., he stopped to explain very nicely, I guess because I did not ask for an autograph, he prefers the talk rather than be asked for an autograph and idolize him, well he also likes that, he is a diva, but has become something more condescending with good conversationalists, well he tell me that he was talking about the serious problem which represents a polluted blogsphere and virtual discussions in the air, is a deep environ-mental problem which disociates man from the real relevance of his opinion, and all of you idolater fans, will know how is manson concerning with these questions having to do with the economic of natural resources.
I think that this song is about being in a coma and not wanting to wake from it. The whole Mechanical animals cd has to do with drugs and life esp. comas
I really don't see where everyone gets "drugs" out of Mechanical Animals. Certainly drugs are used, but I'd always viewed them as symbolic of something else, or used to stimulate imagery.
Anyway, I'd thought that this song was supposed to be the beginning of Omega's regression from reality, following is realization that "Rock Is Dead" and that he was nothing more than a star in corporate music's "dope show." (i.e., the previous tracks).
this is his best song, methinks
Really? I'd always thought that it was the worst song on MA....
Not that it's horrible, just worst relatively. MA is my favourite album.
What's the song about? Disassociation from what? His inner feelings, his inner self? More than about drugs, and the stuff they do to his system. It's got a hidden meaning. He's disassociating himself from the world he knows, and lapsing into a state of nothingness, whereby he can feel at one with himself.
I...always get really depressed over this song.