It turns out that Brandon Flowers is a mormon and they believe that God is a person somewhere. This could make sense of lyrics like 'heaven ain't far away' and 'heaven ain't close in a place like this' from Somebody Told Me, because if God is out there then presumably heaven is a place that can be found on earth.
It turns out that Brandon Flowers is a mormon and they believe that God is a person somewhere. This could make sense of lyrics like 'heaven ain't far away' and 'heaven ain't close in a place like this' from Somebody Told Me, because if God is out there then presumably heaven is a place that can be found on earth.