This is one of the best songs from the Chinese Democracy era and certainly one of Axl's best songwriting moments.

It differs greatly from the majority of the Chinese Democracy material, save for "Shackler's Revenge", by employing the use of present first person. The remaining songs that appear on the Chinese Democracy album are largely passive third person, as if Rose were sitting all alone at a piano, in a studio, or in his own head, recalling the distant past. "It don't really matter, I guess you'll find out for yourself", "It was a bargain for a summer and I thought I'd had it all", "Seems like forever and a day". This sort of reflective storytelling occasionally works on songs like "Prostitute" and "There Was A Time" but a depressed songwriter often makes for depressed storytelling and the lack of narrative tension throughout many of the Chinese Democracy tracks suffer for it.

Here however, the present tense and use of simple metaphor are powerful and evocative tools in spinning a web of manipulation and self-deception. "What can I do when there's so many liars, that crawl through your veins like millions of spiders that seek out their victims and ruin the wiser?" and "Like the tides down on the ocean, the waves are already set in motion, the only one in the game who's lost is you".

The 4-minute hate fueled rant has a clear statement to make, yet provides the listener with sufficient latitude to make draw their own conclusions. It's not dissimilar to tracks like "Out Ta Get Me" from Appetite For Destruction in terms of lyrical directness, while sounding something like a distilled, new millennium version of the fan favorite Use Your Illusion I song "Coma".

The opening synth lines are catchy and interesting, throbbing and ballooning over a drum machine before some powerful drumming by the since departed Josh Freese. It's a rare moment on newer Guns N' Roses songs where the band is allowed to coalesce before Axl makes himself known which gives a fleeting glimpse of band dynamics and equips the proceedings an appropriate sense of grandeur. The guitar work by Robin Finck and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro take a back seat to the tapestry of synth keyboards and electronic loops but provide the appropriate amount of growl to Rose's hellish soundscape.

Axl himself is convincing during his ranting missive although his vocal performance is noticeably weaker than the days of yore and isn't helped by a problematic mix. All criticisms aside, "Oh My God" is catchy and entertaining, sometimes only due to the sheer will of Rose's determination, and would perform admirably as a mid-tier song on a future record given a proper mixing and a couple of slight revisions.

As a post-script, the leaked clip of a revised version of "Oh My God" is a dumbed-down abomination and will garner no further comment.