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A 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 know she'd seen his face some place before |
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And slowly she led 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'm 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 a 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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And she asked him then 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've seen battles won |
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And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun |
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So 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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And she closed herself up like a fan. |
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She said, "I have swallowed a secret thread, |
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It cuts me inside and often I've bled, |
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And he laid his hands then on the top of her head |
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And he bowed her down to 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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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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Well the sun it was gold thought the sky it was grey. |
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She wanted more than she ever could say |
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But she knoew how it frightened her and she turned away |
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And she 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 the 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 how 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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While the Queen went on strangling in the solitude she prefered. |
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The battle continued on. |
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A 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 know she'd seen his face some place before |
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And slowly she led him inside. |
