Hoping I'm the first to point this out, though it might have already been said: That line about "Counting your face among the living" is probably a reference to the Album 'Among The Living' by Anthrax. The album cover on that has one cheery character amongst a sea of dead zombie like characters; so this line could be an inference to how this song is also about the person described here being the only person alive amonst so many dead or dying people?
Hoping I'm the first to point this out, though it might have already been said: That line about "Counting your face among the living" is probably a reference to the Album 'Among The Living' by Anthrax. The album cover on that has one cheery character amongst a sea of dead zombie like characters; so this line could be an inference to how this song is also about the person described here being the only person alive amonst so many dead or dying people?