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From Galilee to Gethsemane to Golgotha
Is a short short walk, a short, short walk Titus Andronicus – Joset of Nazareth's Blues
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Galilee was the native land of Jesus where his work started.

Gethsemane was the place where Jesus started anguish and was jailed by the jews.

Golgotha (a.k.a. Mount Calvary) was the place where Jesus was crucified.

These three places represent Jesus' three life stages, or at least the three most important.

Joseph assures that from from one place to another, its a short walk. From birth to pain to death is a short walk. Life last’s almost nothing

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uhh nazi shit

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Until you hang upon such a cross
You won't know a thing about laughter or loss Titus Andronicus – Joset of Nazareth's Blues
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How can you claim to know shit about life when you haven’t suffered as much as we do?

This is Joseph belittling his supposedly godly son for knowing about humanity’s struggles, while he’s only a teenager and knows nothing. Son of god or not, you’re full of shit.

Joseph’s promise (explained in the previous verse), finally comes through, as his son is crucified.

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So let it be on a stretcher if I get carried away -
What the fuck was it for anyway? Titus Andronicus (Ft. Dan McGee) – Theme from "Cheers"
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A reference to “If I come in on a donkey, let me go out on a gurney” from “A More Perfect Union”

If he dies, he wants to die dramatically, having done something that requires him to be carried out in a stretcher, possibly on his way to either the morgue or the hospital.

And then again, why did I do this?

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And now that I'm older, I look back and say
'What the fuck was it for anyway?' Titus Andronicus (Ft. Dan McGee) – Theme from "Cheers"
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We are now in another present for the narrator, where he’s hold and decrepit. As he looks back on his life, he wonders why did he do all the things he did? Why did he waste his weeks getting hammered with his buddies?

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But I could swear I heard voices from the other side, saying Titus Andronicus (Ft. Dan McGee) – Theme from "Cheers"
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The voices represent a moral warning sign of sorts, as if Patrick’s conscience was talking to him.

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These lines also make a vague connection to the rest of the album, as if the civil war references were some distant memory called into his bleary and drunken mind now even as he stumbles home

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The “other side” often refers to the other side of the grave, or a voice from beyond death, which is a recurring topic in the song.

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So hey, Andy, let's turn into dirty old men Titus Andronicus (Ft. Dan McGee) – Theme from "Cheers"
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Patrick suggests to his friend that they settle down (from the narrator’s POV this happens in the present, why this is is important will be explained later).

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Give me a kegger on a Friday night
Give me anything but another year in exile Titus Andronicus (Ft. Dan McGee) – Theme from "Cheers"
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Patrick’s “exile” was his time in Boston, away from his friends in Glen Rock

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Down in North Carolina, I could have been a productive member of society
But these New Jersey cigarettes and all they require have made a fucking junkie out of me Titus Andronicus (Ft. Dan McGee) – Theme from "Cheers"
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Patrick is comparing himself to Dan McGee from Spider Bags, who sang the previous verse. Patrick sees that he and Dan are very similar, but Dan somehow turned out to be slightly better-adjusted than Patrick, so he wonders if it might have been the state he grew up in.

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When playing live, Patrick used to speak about his love for the state of North Carolina and particularly, Local 506. However, after being ball-tapped during a show at Motorco in May 2013, his opinion may have changed.

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North Carolina cigarettes are cheap, New Jersey cigarettes are damn expensive. Less money spent in NC.

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And the walk home is going to be a real shit show Titus Andronicus (Ft. Dan McGee) – Theme from "Cheers"
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Drunks are known to be quite loud and obnoxious, so coming back home from the party could get messy.

Also, when you’re really wasted, some people have a tendency to lose control of their sphincters, thus giving an actual shit show

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I think he just means the walk home is gonna suck and depending on how drunk he gets he may be stumbling most of the way and falling down.

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God sent me a vision of the future. Titus Andronicus – No Future
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Its the first line of the song “Upon Viewing Bruegel’s "Landscape with the fall of Icarus”.

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