The Queen and the Soldier-Suzanne Vega

[ti:The Queen and the Soldier] [ar:Suzanne Vega] [al:Close-Up, Vol. 2 - People and Places (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.12]The Queen and the Soldier - Suzanne Vega [00:01.68]Written by：Suzanne Vega [00:02.54] [00:20.17]The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door [00:24.86]He said I am not fighting for you any more [00:29.90]And the queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before [00:34.64] [00:35.24]And slowly she let him inside [00:38.24] [00:40.03]He said I've watched your palace up here on the hill [00:44.82]And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill [00:49.85]But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will [00:54.03] [00:54.91]Only first I am asking you why [00:58.97] [01:00.83]Down in the long narrow hall he was led [01:05.06]Into her rooms with her tapestries red [01:10.12]And she never once took the crown from her head [01:14.29] [01:15.46]She asked him there to sit down [01:18.56] [01:22.60]He said I see you now and you are so very young [01:27.47]But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won [01:32.85]And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun [01:37.50] [01:38.11]And now will you tell me why [01:41.57] [01:42.91]The young queen she fixed him with an arrogant eye [01:47.02] [01:47.74]She said you won't understand and you may as well not try [01:52.91]But her face was a child's and he thought she would cry [01:57.95]But she closed herself up like a fan [02:01.59] [02:03.97]And she said I've swallowed a secret burning thread [02:08.08]It cuts me inside and often I've bled [02:13.47]And he laid his hand then on top of her head [02:18.02] [02:18.52]And he bowed her down to the ground [02:22.40] [02:43.24]Tell me how hungry are you how weak you must feel [02:48.39]As you are living here alone and you are never revealed [02:52.52] [02:53.42]But I won't march again on your battlefield [02:58.40]And he took her to the window to see [03:01.59] [03:03.54]And the sun it was gold though the sky it was gray [03:08.78]And she wanted more than she ever could say [03:13.56]But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away [03:18.60]And would not look at his face again [03:21.77] [03:23.42]And he said I want to live as an honest man [03:28.41] [03:29.03]To get all I deserve and to give all I can [03:33.85]And to love a young woman who I don't understand [03:38.18] [03:38.91]Your highness your ways are very strange [03:43.08] [03:46.43]But the crown it had fallen and she thought she would break [03:51.51]And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached [03:56.46]And she took him to the doorstep [03:59.02]And she asked him to wait [03:59.17] [04:01.44]She would only be a moment inside [04:06.00] [04:07.02]Out in the distance her order was heard [04:11.79]And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word [04:16.71]And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred [04:21.75] [04:22.53]The battle [04:23.10] [04:24.68]Continued on