High Plains Drifter finds the Oracle at Delphi

My own research to help translating the title: The title intentionally collides two archetypes from completely different worlds: a character from American Western cinema and the most important and sacred prophetic site of Ancient Greece.

"High Plains Drifter" refers to the 1973 Western film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. In the film, a mysterious "Stranger" (Eastwood) rides into a corrupt town. The townspeople, fearing an attack from outlaws, hire the Stranger for protection. It is heavily implied that the Stranger is not a living man, but the ghost or supernatural reincarnation of the town's former marshal, who had been betrayed by the townsfolk and whipped to death. The "Drifter" is not a savior but an avatar of vengeance - he represents a figure trapped in a cycle of the past, returning to confront unresolved trauma and execute judgment. He is a character who exists between life and death.

"The Oracle at Delphi" refers to the sanctuary of the god Apollo, where kings, generals, and common people traveled to the city of Delphi to ask the god for guidance about the future. The prophecies were not spoken directly by the god, but by a high priestess known as the Pythia (the Oracle). The Pythia would enter a trance, which ancient writers attributed to "sweet vapors" (pneuma) rising from a chasm in the temple's inner sanctum. Modern geological research suggests these vapors could have been light intoxicating gases, such as ethylene, which is known to induce a trance-like state.

The Oracle represents fate, destiny, the search for answers, and the often cryptic and ambiguous nature of the future. The song's lyrics are a direct narrative of this impossible meeting: The narrator is the Drifter, and he has traveled to Delphi to consult the Oracle. He is clearly stuck in a supernatural cycle, mirroring the vengeful ghost of the film, being surrounded by funereal imagery and is aware of his own repetition.

The narrator is being led down to the inner sanctum and tthen has a direct encounter with the Pythia, confirming his fears about his cyclical existence and fate (I told my life to the priestess / She finished it from the other end - She already know how it ends)

The song is a symbolic story about a cursed ghost who is haunted by his past and trapped in a repetitive cycle. He seeks to break this cycle by consulting the ultimate source of future knowledge, but the Oracle only confirms his destiny, revealing that his future is as fixed as his past — a secret that "no one knows but us."