boognishbeliever November 11th, 2005 06:21PM  
Bukowski is the poet. This song is about how organized religion, and god himself fell short of what they are supposed to accomplish. People like Bukoski should not exist in a land where "God controls the land and sea and keeps a watchful eye on me."

anonymous August 30th, 2006 01:34AM  
This song is about the belief in an omnipotent/omniscient god generally, aside from organized religion, and its improbability. The idea that a being would create a world in which s/he would control every small detail in everyone's life, especially given the tragedy that many suffer, is what's brought to bear here. The being would have to be not only a control freak, but mean spirited. It's a pretty cogent argument actually.

johnbasedow211 October 12th, 2007 07:18PM  
This song is more of Isaac being depressed about how God made life miserable and meaningless for most people. ("9 times out of 10 our hearts just get dissolved.")Isaac is also depressed that his life is getting similar to Bukoski's. Because Isaac doesn't understand the meaning of Gods plain he becomes very cynical and a little more evil. - "evil me, oh yeah I know...I can't make it to your wedding but ill be sure to make it to your wake."

anonymous March 31st, 2008 07:54PM  
In Bukowski Brock is not bluntly stating that he hates God but rather that he's more disappointed in the fact that people, (himself), go through so much shit alone. "Well all that icing and all that cake, I can't make it to your wedding but I'll sure be at your wake..." is Brock becoming more and more like the poet/author Charles Bukowski cynically stating that he's not going to be there for all the good times but when shit gets thick he's going to be there. Bukowski was an asshole and the last line of teh song, "He would want to be such an asshole...I fucked up the last line." was Brocke's own fuck up because he thinks that only an "asshole" could control a world with so much pain in it.

anonymous May 6th, 2009 10:44AM  
Singer is unhappy that his life has become more like Bukowski's life. Bukowski was described as such: a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free. The singer feels like he has become anti-social (thus he doesn't want to listen to people) and uninhibited. Since Bukowski was so free and slobby, which made him seem like an asshole to many people, the singer is upset that God still has control over his life even though he is becoming more like Bukowski. How can he be really free to be an asshole when God is such a control freak?