So... Bill Hicks?

[Aequitas]

I strongly believe this song to be at least in part about the late, great Hicks. The man was strongly opinionated, intelligent, articulate, pro-drug, vehemently opposed to U.S. hegemony and armed forces, and I think we all agree his influence on Maynard was significant. Someone suggested to me that the song was written in anger at Hicks's sudden departure from Maynard's life. A martyr? Hicks sure took some heat for his pro-choice, anti-establishment views and did eventually die an early death. It makes sense when you think about it being written in the "denial" phase of mourning.

[lizbiz]

No... Bill Hicks was never a martyr, Maynard loved him, why would he write "He had a lot of nothing to say!"

IMO the eulogy is a generic writing about any leader of a cult. Maynard hates organized religion because of these fools that take it and control it for their own reason.