Er ... oops. It's jester? Really? I've had the album for 15 years and always thought of that line ending in "drifter" -- although, now that you mention it, the other way sounds familiar too. Maybe it's one of those cases of having heard the song the wrong way at first and never quite being able to get the other way to stick in my head.

And thanks for the comment on Cold Comfort. :D That line was how the story began -- I mean, I suppose that's fairly obvious for an opening line (heh) but I wanted to use that line and then kinda built the story around it.