I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
You can't get to heaven in a silver spoon
You can polish everything
except for the mark on you, you
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of mine
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of
(They call you out and up)
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
You can't get to heaven in your Sunday best
When the night before they were calling it
your cocktail dress
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of mine
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of
(They call you out and up)
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One
You can't get to heaven with a three chord song
They called you a sinner
but the people want to sing along
You can polish everything
except for the mark on you, you
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of mine
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of
(They call you out and up)
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
You can't get to heaven in your Sunday best
When the night before they were calling it
your cocktail dress
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of mine
Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of
(They call you out and up)
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One, all Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better, we would be no better
All Hands on the Bad One
You can't get to heaven with a three chord song
They called you a sinner
but the people want to sing along
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The bit: "You can't get to heaven in a silver spoon" seems to me to be about how you say people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth ie. rich. And uh, basically, being rich means nothing/can't you into heaven. I don't think they're literally meaning heaven though. But then again, maybe they are...
Also, the "you can't get to heaven in your Sunday best when last night they were calling it your cocktail dress" means that (well, I think :P) you can't present yourself all good-ness when you're not :P and those two bits kind of sum up the song for me.
Great song ^_^