To me this song is simply about living a life, hello that's what viva la vida means live the life? Spiritual? Haha right whatever! This is a song about someone who felt on top of the world and he simply thought he had friends that weren't his true friends, he made a few wrong turns and blam he doesn't know how he got there he doesn't know y but he's there and willing to make things right, I do however see how this could b a napoleon reference, maybe the band just wrote it bc the lyrics sounded good? Whatever happened to that theory, sure we'd like to believe they thoughr this through, but maybe they wrote it bc of a little thing called money!