Suzanne Vega - The Queen & The Soldier The soldier came knocking upon the queens door He said, I am not fighting for you any more The queen knew shed seen his face someplace before And slowly she let him inside. He said, Ive watched your palace up here on the hill And Ive wondered whos the woman for whom we all kill But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will Only first I am asking you why. Down in the long narrow hall he was led Into her rooms with her tapestries red And she never once took the crown from her head She asked him there to sit down. He said, I see you now, and you are so very young But Ive seen more battles lost than I have battles won And Ive got this intuition, says its all for your fun And now will you tell me why? The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye She said, You wont understand, and you may as well not try But her face was a childs, and he thought she would cry But she closed herself up like a fan. And she said, Ive swallowed a secret burning thread It cuts me inside, and often Ive bled He laid his hand then on top of her head And he bowed her down to the ground. Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed But I wont march again on your battlefield And he took her to the window to see. And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray And she wanted more than she ever could say But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away And would not look at his face again. And he said, I want to live as an honest man To get all I deserve and to give all I can And to love a young woman who I dont understand Your highness, your ways are very strange. But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait She would only be a moment inside. Out in the distance her order was heard And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred The battle continued on
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:43:32 +0000
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