As the comment above show, it's been introduced as being about both the ship and Egon Schiele.
An the more I thought about it, the more the two stories have similarities but are told in the song.
The basic thing that ties them together is that the ship went down with billions of gold and one survivor - Egon Schiele's wife died at his side while 6 months pregnant. To him that left him alone, and all of his treasure - his wife and unborn child, were gone.
The ship has no 'x' to mark its spot, neither is there an 'x' to mark Schiele, his wife and child's passing. Schiele was only 28 when he died, so his potential career and works of art if he lived would be similar to the ship's treaseure being lost too.
As the comment above show, it's been introduced as being about both the ship and Egon Schiele.
An the more I thought about it, the more the two stories have similarities but are told in the song.
The basic thing that ties them together is that the ship went down with billions of gold and one survivor - Egon Schiele's wife died at his side while 6 months pregnant. To him that left him alone, and all of his treasure - his wife and unborn child, were gone.
The ship has no 'x' to mark its spot, neither is there an 'x' to mark Schiele, his wife and child's passing. Schiele was only 28 when he died, so his potential career and works of art if he lived would be similar to the ship's treaseure being lost too.