After listening to the song, I don't think the song is directed at one paticular (sp?) person. My thought is that it is about someone (the narrator of the song) looking back on a friend and all the wrong things he's done and seeing him reborn and starting anew, but wonders how he plans to forgive and fix his mistakes when everybody he's hurt is already dead (literally or metphor). That's just a wild guess though.
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paramedics fell into the wound
like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant
an anesthetic penance beneath
the hail of contraband
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