Could be about someone that has done everything for power and status, even sold their soul (what you sell, you cannot unsell), but when the time comes to pay for their crimes, someone that loves them (like no other to you) offers to take the fall for them (perhaps the mother we hear of in the last verse?). This powerful individual gladly accepts (While you sleep in earthly delight, someone's flesh is rotting tonight). But despite the events of the here and now, death is coming for them and the afterlife or those who have a bone to pick with them, will give them what they deserve (still your soul will suffer this plight).
The mother saving her child can also mean to do anything for someone, in this case it could mean that both the power-thursty individual, and the one loving them, would do anything for them/ themself.
Could be about someone that has done everything for power and status, even sold their soul (what you sell, you cannot unsell), but when the time comes to pay for their crimes, someone that loves them (like no other to you) offers to take the fall for them (perhaps the mother we hear of in the last verse?). This powerful individual gladly accepts (While you sleep in earthly delight, someone's flesh is rotting tonight). But despite the events of the here and now, death is coming for them and the afterlife or those who have a bone to pick with them, will give them what they deserve (still your soul will suffer this plight). The mother saving her child can also mean to do anything for someone, in this case it could mean that both the power-thursty individual, and the one loving them, would do anything for them/ themself.