I think the person talking in the first person is either a magician or a religious figure, or both. The whole action takes place in a mysterious medieval kingdom where magic exists.
The object of the protagonist's attentions and longing can be read on two levels. It seems natural that he is talking about another person, a lover, or perhaps a pet he has loved and lost.
On the other hand, however, there seems to be some peculiar property to this object. The gold light makes me think of a magical object made out of gold, which emanates light; the line about god's anointed makes reminds of King Arthur's sword, how only he could be the one to extract it and use it; the name burnt into the magician's skin makes me think of tattoos members of a cult often get (think of the death eaters in HP), or maybe that name appeared due to the magician being the anointed one, so it's a good omen; and finally "Reach down to the moment when I should've said something true / Shadows and their sources now stealing away with you" makes me think of a spell not properly done (or perhaps a broken prophecy), making the magician lose the object, the relations with other people and maybe even his sanity, in the same way God condamned Cain to roam the Earth and cursed him in the Genesis (which is of course what Prowl Great Cain is about). In the end, the whole story could be told by someone who has lost his mind, so it's just broken images and visions of terror (eg the wolves in the hallway)
I can't really put together these two levels of reading in a way that makes sense. Maybe we're talking about a golden idol shaped like a person or animal, which would explain the head nestled under the magician's chin. Maybe it's the very opposite thing, where the magician falls in love with a person to only later realize her magical properties and the responsibilities that come with them, and eventually he's overwhelmed enough to just let her go. Maybe it's not a person but a magical pet he finds, with the same ultimate results. Maybe it's really just really a song about a failed relationship and all the magic talk is an extended metaphor.
I think the person talking in the first person is either a magician or a religious figure, or both. The whole action takes place in a mysterious medieval kingdom where magic exists. The object of the protagonist's attentions and longing can be read on two levels. It seems natural that he is talking about another person, a lover, or perhaps a pet he has loved and lost. On the other hand, however, there seems to be some peculiar property to this object. The gold light makes me think of a magical object made out of gold, which emanates light; the line about god's anointed makes reminds of King Arthur's sword, how only he could be the one to extract it and use it; the name burnt into the magician's skin makes me think of tattoos members of a cult often get (think of the death eaters in HP), or maybe that name appeared due to the magician being the anointed one, so it's a good omen; and finally "Reach down to the moment when I should've said something true / Shadows and their sources now stealing away with you" makes me think of a spell not properly done (or perhaps a broken prophecy), making the magician lose the object, the relations with other people and maybe even his sanity, in the same way God condamned Cain to roam the Earth and cursed him in the Genesis (which is of course what Prowl Great Cain is about). In the end, the whole story could be told by someone who has lost his mind, so it's just broken images and visions of terror (eg the wolves in the hallway)
I can't really put together these two levels of reading in a way that makes sense. Maybe we're talking about a golden idol shaped like a person or animal, which would explain the head nestled under the magician's chin. Maybe it's the very opposite thing, where the magician falls in love with a person to only later realize her magical properties and the responsibilities that come with them, and eventually he's overwhelmed enough to just let her go. Maybe it's not a person but a magical pet he finds, with the same ultimate results. Maybe it's really just really a song about a failed relationship and all the magic talk is an extended metaphor.