The Queen and the Soldier (Live)-Suzanne Vega

[ti:The Queen and the Soldier (live)] [ar:Suzanne Vega] [al:Retrospective-The Best of Suzanne Vega] [by:] [offset:0] [00:21.04]The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door [00:25.60]He said "I am not fighting for you any more" [00:30.91]The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before [00:35.35]And slowly she let him inside [00:40.40]He said "I've watched your palace up here on the hill [00:44.84]And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill [00:50.01]But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will [00:54.26]Only first I am asking you why " [00:59.00] [01:00.93]Down in the long narrow hall he was led [01:04.49]Into her rooms with her tapestries red [01:10.18]And she never once took the crown from her head [01:14.45] [01:15.13]She asked him there to sit down [01:18.22] [01:22.34]He said "I see you now and you are so very young [01:26.95]But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won [01:31.76]And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun [01:36.95]And now will you tell me why " [01:40.63] [01:41.95]The young queen she fixed him with an arrogant eye [01:46.38]She said "You won't understand and you may as well not try" [01:51.55]But her face was a child's and he thought she would cry [01:56.30]But she closed herself up like a fan [02:01.60] [02:02.73]And she said "I've swallowed a secret burning thread [02:06.41]It cuts me inside and often I've bled" [02:12.33]He laid his hand then on top of her head [02:16.83]And he bowed her down to the ground [02:20.59] [02:41.99]"Tell me how hungry are you How weak you must feel [02:46.42]As you are living here alone and you are never revealed [02:50.91]But I won't march again on your battlefield" [02:56.28]And he took her to the window to see [03:01.48]And the sun it was gold though the sky it was gray [03:06.22]And she wanted more than she ever could say [03:11.21]But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away [03:16.20]And would not look at his face again [03:21.13]And he said "I want to live as an honest man [03:26.50]To get all I deserve and to give all I can [03:31.26]And to love a young woman who I don't understand [03:35.94]Your highness your ways are very strange " [03:40.74] [03:43.92]But the crown it had fallen and she thought she would break [03:48.67]And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached [03:53.54]She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait [03:58.78]She would only be a moment inside [04:03.96]Out in the distance her order was heard [04:08.57]And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word [04:13.38]And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred [04:18.18]The battle continued on