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.
Do you remember my friend
When I was frozen and dead inside
A piece of nothing in this world
Till I heard she said
Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness
Can you believe this my friend
I was empty and broken inside
She came to save me from the storm
Till I heard she said
Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness
Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness
Blood
Tears
Dust
Take my blood
Tears
Dust
Time belongs to you and I
There's nowhere else
I wish I could be
Mountains high
Dark river flows
The wind will blow
Our fire will burn
Rise
Again
(Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness)
When I was frozen and dead inside
A piece of nothing in this world
Till I heard she said
Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness
Can you believe this my friend
I was empty and broken inside
She came to save me from the storm
Till I heard she said
Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness
Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness
Blood
Tears
Dust
Take my blood
Tears
Dust
Time belongs to you and I
There's nowhere else
I wish I could be
Mountains high
Dark river flows
The wind will blow
Our fire will burn
Rise
Again
(Three nights of hell
Immortality to spell
Light up the sky
Make it through the darkness)
Lyrics submitted by fellonblackdays1, edited by ISLGunnarStahl
Blood, Tears, Dust Lyrics as written by Cristina Scabbia Andrea Ferro
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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I think it's about someone going through a very dark spell & depending on someone they're closest to, to save them & reclaim their soul to bring them back to life so to speak.