Sam Beam has a talent for bringing a thousand topics to the table in as few words as he possibly can.
I think think this one is about bullying. A boy is being abused or bullied, and when the song starts off, someone, the "hero begging change" is trying to stop what's happening, and the bullies are "making sure the king won't grant the dead man on more day," meaning the hero may have been hurt or killed. I think the mother in the end is mourning the loss of the hero, and the boy waiting for a sweaty hand is the boy who lost his hero, and may possibly be waiting for more help.
Sam Beam has a talent for bringing a thousand topics to the table in as few words as he possibly can.
I think think this one is about bullying. A boy is being abused or bullied, and when the song starts off, someone, the "hero begging change" is trying to stop what's happening, and the bullies are "making sure the king won't grant the dead man on more day," meaning the hero may have been hurt or killed. I think the mother in the end is mourning the loss of the hero, and the boy waiting for a sweaty hand is the boy who lost his hero, and may possibly be waiting for more help.