Lips of Ashes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by GroovyJude 

Cover art for Lips of Ashes lyrics by Porcupine Tree

The best theory I've heard is that this song refers to a British doctor, Harold Shipman, who killed hundreds of his patients by overdosing them on morphine and other drugs and watched them die. This fits quite well with the imagery of veins, dead bodies and "drilling down inside."