Andy doesn't ever write simple songs and people that perceive this one to be simple and straightforward are kidding themselves. I think the song is definitely an agnostic take. He is attacking the nonsense of religion, but at the same time, addressing it to a deity that he says he doesn't believe in. In the end, it is a man that wants to believe, but sees no reason to believe, yet, still is trying to see if there is some slim chance that his words are being heard.
@Guszak The song is a caustic comment on the book \'Letters to God\', in which children were asked (coerced?) to write letters to the Deity. AP regarded this as a form of child abuse. It is also, in his own words, himself bidding farewell to the last vestiges of his beliefs.
@Guszak The song is a caustic comment on the book \'Letters to God\', in which children were asked (coerced?) to write letters to the Deity. AP regarded this as a form of child abuse. It is also, in his own words, himself bidding farewell to the last vestiges of his beliefs.
Andy doesn't ever write simple songs and people that perceive this one to be simple and straightforward are kidding themselves. I think the song is definitely an agnostic take. He is attacking the nonsense of religion, but at the same time, addressing it to a deity that he says he doesn't believe in. In the end, it is a man that wants to believe, but sees no reason to believe, yet, still is trying to see if there is some slim chance that his words are being heard.
@Guszak The song is a caustic comment on the book \'Letters to God\', in which children were asked (coerced?) to write letters to the Deity. AP regarded this as a form of child abuse. It is also, in his own words, himself bidding farewell to the last vestiges of his beliefs.
@Guszak The song is a caustic comment on the book \'Letters to God\', in which children were asked (coerced?) to write letters to the Deity. AP regarded this as a form of child abuse. It is also, in his own words, himself bidding farewell to the last vestiges of his beliefs.