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Spoon – Trouble Comes Running Lyrics 15 years ago
The princes and slaves line is actually a reference to the Bible. Ecclesiastes 10:7, to be exact: "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."

I think the whole song is at least thematically related to the book of Ecclesiastes.

"All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing."

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