"Jesus Christ is me", Levante song, third extracted from the album "In the chaos of amazing rooms", tells the sad phenomenon of violence against women
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him"Jesus Christ is me every time you put me on the cross, every time" You are the queen "and on my head only so many thorns", it opens like this I am Jesus Christ, excerpt from Get the Funds!, third excerpt from the album In the chaos of amazing rooms. A pressing, deep, cutting piece, through which the Sicilian singer-songwriter denounces her violence against women, not only the physical one, but also the psychological one. A song that - through a researched biblical metaphor - indicates a deeply topical phenomenon.
Jesus Christ is every abused woman, offended, mortified, raped, abused. Jesus Christ is every woman mocked, belittled, betrayed. Jesus Christ is every abandoned woman. Jesus Christ is every woman who has seen her dignity trampled on, every woman who has endured in silence, that she has been afraid of her, that she has not found anyone willing to listen to her, who has not said it out of shame. Jesus Christ is every woman who died at the hands of a man who claimed to love her.
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I am Jesus Christ: meaning of the text
Levante, born Claudia Lagona, has always shown that she has an intelligent, sharp, sharp pen and, in Jesus Christ it is me, she has put it at the service of a powerful and disarming piece, able to tell the sad phenomenon of violence against women in an original and unusual way. Jesus Christ and the pains he was forced to undergo represent one metaphor: the cross and crown of thorns they symbolize the suffering of a violated woman; the prayers they are the mistaken, but unfortunately frequent, conviction of deserving the violence suffered and of having to beg the forgiveness of one's executioner for the evil endured; there kneeling, demon, the nails they are the punishment and mortification to be served for physical and psychological abuse; there resurrectionfinally, it represents the rebirth after pain, the choice, not always easy or immediate, to denounce one's tormentor.
"Confess that you are the devil in my head that always drags me down”, So sings Levante in the chorus of the piece, which is a liberating scream after the relentless succession of stanzas. The woman is not only a victim of physical violence, but also and above all psychological: the devil is in the head, not only in the bruises, in the cuts, in the battered nails; the devil is the conviction of not being able to free oneself from that dull and petty pain, of having deserved it, of not being able to overcome it. The devil is the conviction of not having to overcome it.
"For all the thorns in the world and the nails in my heart, this is my blood, this is my body: I take them away, love”, He then sings, in a raw and moving passage: the resurrection, which is nothing other than the rebellion against a sick relationship, does not come without effort, without fear, without anger. The body and the spirit are tortured, forever branded, they bear the marks of a wound that will never or never heal completely, but they decide to go away, to leave the battlefield, not to hold their breath anymore. Because, especially when it comes to a relationship between two lovers, they turn into victim and executioner, it is not enough for the body to save itself, it is necessary for it to do so too mind, that he no longer feels a victim, that he no longer feels obliged to endure.
Levante herself explained the passage as follows, here are her words:
I tell a microcosm, the relationship between two lovers who turn into victim and executioner, which in truth is only the reflection of a macrocosm that still uses, in these increasingly less modern times, treating the woman as an inferior being. Jesus christ am I is the path of a woman who, crossing a dark road, he finds himself in the shoes of a Christ and rises again.
The text
Here is the text of Jesus Christ I am:
I am Jesus Christ
All the times you put me on the cross
Whenever you're the queen
And on the head only so many thorns
I am Jesus Christ
For the lies I've forgiven you
And the prayers outside the door
For my sacred abandoned temple
Confess that you are the devil in the head
That always drags me down
Confess
That heaven does not belong to me
That I did not kneel
That I did not kneel
That, that from you I rise too
I am Jesus Christ
Multiplying all the patience
I will have fed you and your arrogance
Maybe I even brought you the other cheek
I am Jesus Christ
That I have done so many miracles
I picked you up and carried you on
But you only remember my sins
Confess that you are the devil in the head
That always drags me down
Confess
That heaven does not belong to me
That I did not kneel
That I did not kneel
That, that from you I rise too
For all the thorns in the world
The nails driven into the heart
This is my blood, this is my body
I take them away, love
For all the thorns in the world
The nails driven into the heart
This is my blood, this is my body
I take them away, love
Confess that you are the devil in the head
That always drags me down
Confess
That heaven does not belong to me
That I did not kneel
That I did not kneel
That, that from you I rise too
That I rise from you too
That I rise from you too
That I rise from you
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