"Hi there, I like the comments posted, but I'd like to take a different approach. Because DT is so incredibly talented with their music and lyrics, is it possible that this song is completely fictional? John Petrucci is very imaginative, musically and lyrically, that this story could be completely made..." (view)

"i read that this song is based on a true story. danny elfman had a girl guide come to his door selling cookies and he made up this song on the spot to creep her out so he got the cookies for free :)" (view)

"It's too bad this song's lyrics are so ambiguous. It's hard to tell if the writer is referring to the Abrahamic God at all, or perhaps some conceptions of him. It does refer to 'gods of violence and bigotry', which indicates a plurality, but if it refers to the conceptions..." (view)