any ideas of what the singer is referring to? If you click the link at the bottom you can read what other people thought It is about his mother's fight with cancer and her undying faith, despite the fact that she had a stroke and was paralyzed for 30 years. And Maynard's anger towards her belief system. I heard someone compare this song to "Eulogy"...not even close. That song was about his stepfather who was a preacher and left his mother alone after the stroke. The same guy who molested him as a youngster. So no comparrison. He wrote about the same man in "Prison Sex"...Then if we move to the "10,000 Days" album with the title tracks is also about his mom. That's roughly the number of days in the 30 year span. She had passed and ended her struggle, to which Maynard wrote it so poetically. From funeral to the approach of the pearly gates it's about maynard's mommy,i think | 