I think this song is about a man deeply involved in crime life, like a mobster or something, and he comes home to realize that his family has been brutally murdered.
He gets rid of the evidence by burning the bones. He wishes he could follow them up to heaven but he knows he cannot so he wishes them a prayer and goes to sleep:
Pick up the bones
And set them on fire
Follow the smoke going higher and higher
Pick up the bones
And wish them goodnight
Pray them a prayer and turn out the light"
I think this song is about a man deeply involved in crime life, like a mobster or something, and he comes home to realize that his family has been brutally murdered.
He gets rid of the evidence by burning the bones. He wishes he could follow them up to heaven but he knows he cannot so he wishes them a prayer and goes to sleep:
Pick up the bones And set them on fire Follow the smoke going higher and higher Pick up the bones And wish them goodnight Pray them a prayer and turn out the light"
One of my all time favorites :D