I love this song! I don't have any concrete evidence to this, but it seems as if this song is the ending to a mini opera. "New storms for older lovers" would be the beginning followed by "Last blues for bloody knuckles" and lastly "Sad prayers for guilty bodies". And I know "Said the king to the river" is about the princess and the cowherd, but the second and third stanzas really conjure images of that scenario as well.
I love this song! I don't have any concrete evidence to this, but it seems as if this song is the ending to a mini opera. "New storms for older lovers" would be the beginning followed by "Last blues for bloody knuckles" and lastly "Sad prayers for guilty bodies". And I know "Said the king to the river" is about the princess and the cowherd, but the second and third stanzas really conjure images of that scenario as well.