I think that, like most of Bishop Briggs songs, it has an obvious meaning, about religious enterprises taking advantage of people, and then the undertones of heavy drug addiction.
This to me seems to be about heroin addiction.
The beginning is talking about how addicts deaths are hidden away as unimportant, then the second verse is about how drugs effect people who are already downtrodden, and they take it to bury their sorrow.
There's more love on a dead man's arms -
The overdosed man felt more love than anyone else before dying.
Maybe it is built of stone
Maybe it's dark as coal
Used to be a heart, I'm told
But a heart needs blood to love-
Talking about the different types of heroin, China White which is like a stone, black tar, dark as coal, used to fun but now it is draining me of life to gain just a little bit of the loving feeling.
I think that, like most of Bishop Briggs songs, it has an obvious meaning, about religious enterprises taking advantage of people, and then the undertones of heavy drug addiction. This to me seems to be about heroin addiction. The beginning is talking about how addicts deaths are hidden away as unimportant, then the second verse is about how drugs effect people who are already downtrodden, and they take it to bury their sorrow.
There's more love on a dead man's arms - The overdosed man felt more love than anyone else before dying.
Maybe it is built of stone Maybe it's dark as coal Used to be a heart, I'm told But a heart needs blood to love- Talking about the different types of heroin, China White which is like a stone, black tar, dark as coal, used to fun but now it is draining me of life to gain just a little bit of the loving feeling.