Cemetery Row Lyrics

Lyric discussion by polythene.ruth 

Cover art for Cemetery Row lyrics by Minus 5, The

Any thoughts as to what the first two lines mean?

The only two meanings that I could think of were that this is what colin thinks happens when you die - hands get numb; stupid people. The other thing I could think of was that it's what life is like, so death doesn't seem like a bad thing, or at least not much of a change. I guess that's what I got out of this song - that death isn't really that much of a change. Maybe I'm way off. Probably.