That was the line that really stood out to me too, not only in the song, but on the whole album.
The Sermon on the Mount in Christianity includes the Beatiudes, one line among them being "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." It says that the poor are those who shall inherit heaven. So thus it would be a little paradoxical, or perhaps hypocritical, that a millionaire would be quoting from a passage in scripture claiming that it is the poor who shall inherit the earth. So, I think what that line is trying to say is that the narrator is beginning to think his own life may be becoming a little hypocritical, or he may not be fully practicing what he preaches.
I think this song is about the narrator coming to grips with his loss of innocence, or at least lamenting that fact, and possible longing for a simpler time when people actually were truthful and meant what they said.
That was the line that really stood out to me too, not only in the song, but on the whole album.
The Sermon on the Mount in Christianity includes the Beatiudes, one line among them being "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." It says that the poor are those who shall inherit heaven. So thus it would be a little paradoxical, or perhaps hypocritical, that a millionaire would be quoting from a passage in scripture claiming that it is the poor who shall inherit the earth. So, I think what that line is trying to say is that the narrator is beginning to think his own life may be becoming a little hypocritical, or he may not be fully practicing what he preaches.
I think this song is about the narrator coming to grips with his loss of innocence, or at least lamenting that fact, and possible longing for a simpler time when people actually were truthful and meant what they said.