I see the cocaine addiction...but i think it goes deeper than that, how deep or where it leads, i have no idea.
Coins were placed on the eyes of the dead so that they could pay the toll to the Boatman on the river Styx. It has nothing to do with debt to anybody, it's simply how their soul was supposed to get into the afterlife.
Dave may have wanted it to represent a debt to a specific person, but that's not the original intent of the custom.
This is, I think, Dave's best song on the CD...it's the one that strays the least from the bands original style, and his heart really seems to be in the vocals on this one.
I see the cocaine addiction...but i think it goes deeper than that, how deep or where it leads, i have no idea. Coins were placed on the eyes of the dead so that they could pay the toll to the Boatman on the river Styx. It has nothing to do with debt to anybody, it's simply how their soul was supposed to get into the afterlife. Dave may have wanted it to represent a debt to a specific person, but that's not the original intent of the custom. This is, I think, Dave's best song on the CD...it's the one that strays the least from the bands original style, and his heart really seems to be in the vocals on this one.