anonymous July 7th, 2006 03:27PM  
I see this song about the rise and fall of a California drug dealer. At first he's not only everyone's best friend, but he's a pinoneer, a "rainmaker", a wunderkind, he's a god.
As with all things, when the market gets hip to your game (music, technology, stocks, etc.), it (the market) inevitably will consume you.

ollie510 August 21st, 2007 06:38PM  
I believe this song is about Ken Kesey, specifically. "Everyone else's was laced with kerosene but yours was kitchen clean." "Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl (LSD)" Ken Kesey certainly did act like a modern day Jesus.

jlm819 September 19th, 2008 10:03PM  
It's about Timothy Leary.

anonymous September 3rd, 2009 05:50PM  
It's about Owsley Stanley(The Bear). Owsley made the best LSD around in the sixties. He fed the Acid Tests. This was no ordinary dealer. He recreated what the government was making at the time. He was a very smart man who gave his talents to this specific mind expanding drug. He was eventually busted and left behind by many who once used his product, including the Grateful Dead.