I saw your post about that and while I agree that knowing what inspired a song could sometimes be quite off-putting, I also think that if you like a song or it means something to you, that's as valid as the initial inspiration. As long as the song is not describing an event/person as it is, to me inspiration is a pretty wide and open word. I didn't care a lot about Happy Now before knowing the inspiration behind, so it didn't make me change my mind. I've always liked Bells Of Freedom and I've read that it was inspired by politics (and also that it wasn't), but I still like it the same.

All Hail The King could also be perfectly about the band, not about an individual. About the feeling of everything crumbling down around you and holding onto yourself, your essence, your strength. It doesn't matter anyway, this song and others from the album (Rollercoaster comes to mind, to me it's also about them) prove that you can have a universal lyric that's also meaningful enough to touch somebody and made them their own, which is what Jon always preaches about but clearly didn't translate into the last albums. This is why THINFS is getting much more reaction imho, not necessarily because individual songs are better than previous albums, but because you listen to a lyric that seems clearly about something or that it has been said what the inspiration behind it is, but it also means something to you, you make it your own. I know I sound like Jon and I'm not a fan of his pep talk speeches but it's true that the BJ songs I like the most are the ones that mean something to me in a personal level and THINFS is full of that.

I like your interpretation about Prince. "All Hail The King whose castle is falling down, indeed"