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Feb 21, 2009
The song talks about a king who had everything, ruled everything but was overthrown, deposed by revolutionaries and after the deposition the king speaks of how he knows he was bad and how he deserves this loss of power such as when he says "I Know Saint Peter won't call my name", he refers to Saint Peter's position of Keeper of the Keys of Heaven in other words how the king wont be called to heaven, castles upon sand and salt refers to his crumbling kingdom, "never an honest word" how the king was not truthful, "Revolutionaries wait for my head on a silver plate" how the people of his kingdom wanted him dead. Eh, that is probably a good definition of the song.