A King and a Queen-Okkervil River

[ti:A King And Queen] [ar:Okkervil River] [al:Black Sheep Boy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A King and a Queen - Okkervil River [00:21.69]If you want to see and be seen then be seen [00:25.38] [00:26.32]Your dress is dark red and your opening eyes are bright green [00:32.27]Make a scene but don't lie on the bed [00:36.20]Laid out like you're dead because honey you're murdering me [00:42.39] [00:57.64]Be a little sheep learning who'll shear and who'll feed [01:02.15]The hands come and they leave [01:04.40] [01:04.96]Be hands holding a knife [01:07.40]Be a being on two feet with his heart trembling [01:12.27] [01:12.90]Butchering for a king [01:15.33]He believes in though he's never seen [01:20.11] [01:44.66]Be the princess in that stone tower [01:48.73] [01:49.98]Crying for that handsome butcher's plight [01:56.35] [01:57.10]And as some princess might [01:59.67]She still calls him a knight [02:01.48]But the best thing for you would be queen so be queen [02:07.04] [02:08.17]You're all that I need [02:10.23]Though I know that it never can be [02:13.92]I'd be pleased to post your decrees [02:17.55] [02:18.42]To fall at your knees [02:20.48]To name all your streets and to sit down and weep [02:25.55]When you're carried back through them [02:28.42]And set down to sleep [02:30.67]And to lie by your side for sublime centuries [02:35.78]Until we crumble to dust when we're crushed by a single sunbeam