The Song. In addition to being a touching tribute to his grandmother, the song is also the beginning of an album-long story of revenge. The lyrics are written from the point of view of a man who gets into a car crash with a young woman called Helena.

Helena (born c. 248, Drepanon?, Bithynia, Asia Minor—died c. 328, Nicomedia; Western feast day August 18; Eastern feast day [with Constantine] May 21) was a Roman empress who was the reputed discoverer of Christ's cross.

Some accounts insist that Helena was named after a miner's Minnesota sweetheart. Another says it was originally “St. Helena,” after the island where Napoleon was exiled. A California man wrote to the Montana Historical Society in 1962 with the notion that the town was named for his grandmother.

Helena, Montana The capital city of Montana is pronounced “HELL-e-na,” not “Hel-LAY-na.” That is how most women named Helena say their name. Helena is located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, between Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.