Loaded magazine named it “Novel of the Century”, the BBC called it “One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twenthieth century” Luke Rhinehart´s 1971 novel “The Dice Man” made a deep impact on me, being introduced to it in a rather tumultuous period of my life.
The song is about exploring different aspects of your personality and the twist ending is about true peace and the afterlife.
There is something profoundly intriguing about the power of chance, some even attributing it as the origin of life itself. The story involves a psychotherapist in New York in the late 60´s who starts making life decisions based on the roll of the dice, something that catapults him into life-changing situations of varying severity. One mans search for truth ends up being his downfall in a spiral of alienation, violence and demise.