Need help with understanding a "strange" tune

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Can someone please explain the lyrics to this tune.
At first I thought that his father might have stopped kneeling for prayer and started drinking too much alcohol instead or something other wjich is bad but after hearing the full song It seems to be about his father being deceased.
Which denomination don’t believe that you can pray after you die? What am I missunderstanding. All those who listen to the tune are supposed to understand but just find the language too weird. Stop praying, at least tyo me, sounds like you started with a bad behaviour. And the writer or the lyrics seems to even tell us that you do not pray in heaven.

 
You may be looking too far into the lyrics. Chris Stapleton, while a talented country music artist, likely doesen’t mean for his lyrics to be read this deeply into.
 
I agree with Max. I think this is his way of poetically saying that his father, who used to pray for him, is now dead.

Nice lyrics, by the way.
 
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Most Protestants don’t believe that the saints pray after they die. It is their understanding of Scripture. To even suggest to some of them that anyone ask for their intercession is offensive - analogous to idolatry, occultism, even necromancy.

UPDATE: I should distinguish that they mean the intercession of Christians who’ve passed on for those on earth. I don’t believe that most Protestant Christians believe it possible for deceased Christians to pray for others alive on earth.
 
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I did not know that. I wonder what their understanding of what a saint is then? Can you answer that by any chance?
 
All Christians in their view are saints. There is no special distinguishing mark of it to most. I think, too, that many might look at sainthood as something we attain in heaven - not on earth. There’s that human sin factor that - I think - would keep most from considering themselves as “saints”. But that can vary with each Christian depending on their understanding of Scripture.
 
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