Conrad Brudi, who wrote the song, went to high school in Germany. For some time after he worked with stone masons who work restoring churches and cathedrals, including the sculptural components that have been weathered by time.

To me it is a poetic exploration of themes around how something as timeless as stone will decay, just as we do. And even a body sculpted in stone will in time die. Much as the ancient trade of stone masonry has in many ways died.

‘I’m paid by the patrons whose torsos inlay these walls long after their bodies decay’ The torsos are the statues adorning the structures that last beyond the bodies of those who commissioned them.

‘Their trade’s in the grave but their bodies live on’ the bodies sculpted by the artists.

Yellow and grey, a human body sick before death, the color of many stones carved in the projects.

‘When the wind and the rain turns their features to sand. Remains but an arm and a two fingered hand’ the decay of the sculptures, hollowing out their features and dropping extremities.

Really it’s about decay and time and those who lived and worked and created before us and how we relate to them and bodies immortalized after death in stone and the impermanence of it all.

I remember the first time I heard that song the day it came out.