i think this song is from daniel cowman's point of view. i agree that the beginning is about when he was in the courtroom and was sentenced to death. he started thinking about when he died, what would happen. how he couldn't imagine a world, because he wouldn't be in it.
the next verse i think is about how even though he is still alive but dead to the press, he can't do whatever he wants & therefore can't take a bath.
i think the part about heroin boy taking a bath is that he is taking a bath to cleanse himself of the sins he committed on earth, because he too is destined to die, and is maybe fearful of hell, i think this because in the part that says
"and I was sure someone next door was blowing up balloons
and they was red and orange" red and orange like fire, and hell.
then also
"a man destined to hang can never drown
a man destined to drown can never burn
a man destined to fry can never, ever, ever
die in any other way
frying--lucky that I'm dying by hanging and not drowning" he says frying because he is talking about frying in hell & if he drowned he wouldn't have time to, idk purify himself before death, and would still end up in hell, even though he knows he is destined to. and now daniel wants to take a bath to rid his sins, but he can't because he is still a prisoner even though he is already dead to the world.
i don't know if that made any sense, but thats what i think of when i listen to the song.
i think this song is from daniel cowman's point of view. i agree that the beginning is about when he was in the courtroom and was sentenced to death. he started thinking about when he died, what would happen. how he couldn't imagine a world, because he wouldn't be in it.
the next verse i think is about how even though he is still alive but dead to the press, he can't do whatever he wants & therefore can't take a bath.
i think the part about heroin boy taking a bath is that he is taking a bath to cleanse himself of the sins he committed on earth, because he too is destined to die, and is maybe fearful of hell, i think this because in the part that says
"and I was sure someone next door was blowing up balloons and they was red and orange" red and orange like fire, and hell.
then also
"a man destined to hang can never drown a man destined to drown can never burn a man destined to fry can never, ever, ever die in any other way frying--lucky that I'm dying by hanging and not drowning" he says frying because he is talking about frying in hell & if he drowned he wouldn't have time to, idk purify himself before death, and would still end up in hell, even though he knows he is destined to. and now daniel wants to take a bath to rid his sins, but he can't because he is still a prisoner even though he is already dead to the world.
i don't know if that made any sense, but thats what i think of when i listen to the song.