Suzanne Vega – Queen And The Soldier (Guitar)

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The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door

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He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore"

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And the queen knew she'd seen his face    someplace before

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And slowly she let him inside

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He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill

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And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill

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But I am leaving tomorrow, and you can do what you will

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Only first I am asking you why"

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Down the long narrow hall he was led

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Into her room with her tapestries red

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And she never once took the crown from her head

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She asked him there to sit down

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He said, "I see you now and you are so very young

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But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won

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And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun

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And now will you tell me why?"

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Well the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye

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She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"

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But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry

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But she closed herself up like a fan

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And she said, "I have swallowed a secret burning thread

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It cuts me inside and often I've bled"

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And he laid his hand then on the top of her head

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And he bowed her down to the ground

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OooooooooooooH

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OooooooooooooooH

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"Tell me how hungry are you, how weak you must feel

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As you are living here alone and you are never revealed

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But I won't march again on your battlefield"

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And he took her to the window to see

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And the sun it was gold, though the sky it was grey

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And she wanted more than she ever could say

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But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away

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And would not look at his face again

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He said, "I want to live as an honest man

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To get all I deserve and to give all I can

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And to love a young woman whom I don't understand

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Your highness, your ways are very strange"

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But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break

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And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached

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And she took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait

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She would only be a moment inside

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Out in the distance her order was heard

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And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word

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And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred

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The battle       continued on

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Ooooooooooooooooh

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Oooooooooooooooooh

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