Suzanne Vega – The 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 any more"

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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 in the long narrow hall he was led

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Into her rooms 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've swallowed a secret burning thread

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It cuts me inside, and often I've bled"

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He laid his hand then on top of her head

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And he bowed her down to the ground

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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 gray

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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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And 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 who 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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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 strangeling in the solitude she preferred

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The battle continued on