The US version of "Ten Summoner's Tales" only has 11 tracks on it, with this being the last one. Now, knowing that 'summoner' was a play on Sting's surname (Sumner), and this song being the 11th and final track (the epilogue), it seemed to me that this song was intended as a sort of foil to the rest of the album. Sort of like "Oh, you thought those 10 songs were autobiographical, did you? Ha! I'm a performer, I sell fantasy!"
The US version of "Ten Summoner's Tales" only has 11 tracks on it, with this being the last one. Now, knowing that 'summoner' was a play on Sting's surname (Sumner), and this song being the 11th and final track (the epilogue), it seemed to me that this song was intended as a sort of foil to the rest of the album. Sort of like "Oh, you thought those 10 songs were autobiographical, did you? Ha! I'm a performer, I sell fantasy!"