his threats seem empty though, almost like he's speaking to himself - they're so bombastic ("there won’t be a star left untouched in your sky/When my lightening crashes across that night") but their intent is ground down by repetition and the desperately weary tenor of Pearson's voice (though it's sort of ubiquitous on the album). in any case if he's a king he sounds like an older and weaker one, who drinks himself into the past because he can't connect with his present.
his threats seem empty though, almost like he's speaking to himself - they're so bombastic ("there won’t be a star left untouched in your sky/When my lightening crashes across that night") but their intent is ground down by repetition and the desperately weary tenor of Pearson's voice (though it's sort of ubiquitous on the album). in any case if he's a king he sounds like an older and weaker one, who drinks himself into the past because he can't connect with his present.