Ghosts

These are the correct verses, first of all, if you hear the raw vocal tracks:

V-I:

In the first days - of the spring time Made you a prince with a thousand enemies Made a trail of - a thousand tears Made you prisoner inside your own frequency

V-II

At the first hour - of the spring time Made you a prince with a thousand enemies Now I see you - from the corner Clock strikes - and I know you will be drinking alone...

This is a quote directly from [u]Watership Down[/u] and the story of the rabbits who fled to recolonize a different place upon a premonition of danger:

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed. ..."

Seeing as the video depicts rabbits and danger and all that, I would be hard-pressed to not think the quote and the video are references to the fact that these band members (3 of them anyway) are English/British and it's a 1972 British novel they likely read while young and it "got to them" to some degree. I read it in grade school too in America and I was born in '72.

But the overall message of the song about a broken relationship and her having separated him from his friends to some degree and now he is without love and without friends "drinking alone" is some reference of her remorse for what happened,...even if it's not her fault and she technically is not sorry for what happened, just has mixed feelings of how it turned out.

That's my take. :) -Krusty