<a href="http://www.suzannevega.com/lyrics/svlyr.htm#queen" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">http://www.suzannevega.com/lyrics/svlyr.htm#queen</a><br /><br /><br /><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Queen And The Soldier - Suzanne Vega</span></font><br /><br /><br />The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door<br />He said, "I am not fighting for you any more"<br />The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before<br />And slowly she let him inside.<br /><br />He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill<br />And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill<br />But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will<br />Only first I am asking you why."<br /><br />Down in the long narrow hall he was led<br />Into her rooms with her tapestries red<br />And she never once took the crown from her head<br />She asked him there to sit down.<br /><br />He said, "I see you now, and you are so very young<br />But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won<br />And I've got this intuition, says it's all for your fun<br />And now will you tell me why?"<br /><br />The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye<br />She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"<br />But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry<br />But she closed herself up like a fan.<br /><br />And she said, "I've swallowed a secret burning thread<br />It cuts me inside, and often I've bled"<br />He laid his hand then on top of her head<br />And he bowed her down to the ground.<br /><br />" Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel<br />As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed<br />But I won't march again on your battlefield"<br />And he took her to the window to see.<br /><br />And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray<br />And she wanted more than she ever could say<br />But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away<br />And would not look at his face again.<br /><br />And he said, "I want to live as an honest man<br />To get all I deserve and to give all I can<br />And to love a young woman who I don't understand<br />Your highness, your ways are very strange."<br /><br />But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break<br />And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached<br />She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait<br />She would only be a moment inside.<br /><br />Out in the distance her order was heard<br />And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word<br />And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred<br />The battle continued on
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