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Seems to me that the grandson in the song is saying that he read those words while standing in the doorway of a church where he and his grandfather stopped to pray for his grandmother's recovery, which of course did not happen.
Seems to me that the grandson in the song is saying that he read those words while standing in the doorway of a church where he and his grandfather stopped to pray for his grandmother's recovery, which of course did not happen.