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The Queen And The Soldier by Suzanne Vega

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The Queen And The Soldier
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Bri Morgan posted
at 3:06am on October 30, 2009

Thanks to Graham and Lenore!

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Anette Dahlgren posted
at 6:08am on October 21, 2009

why be a soldier

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A friend posted
at 3:24pm on October 2, 2009

please listen to this song the words are amazing!

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Matthew Locke posted
at 8:16am on September 3, 2009

always was my song

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Andrew Guscott posted
at 9:54am on August 30, 2009

The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you any more" The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before And slow... More... The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you any more" The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before And slowly she let him inside. He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will Only first I am asking you why." Down in the long narrow hall he was led Into her rooms with her tapestries red And she never once took the crown from her head She asked him there to sit down. He said, "I see you now, and you are so very young But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won And I've got this intuition, says it's all for your fun And now will you tell me why?" The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try" But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry But she closed herself up like a fan. And she said, "I've swallowed a secret burning thread It cuts me inside, and often I've bled" He laid his hand then on top of her head And he bowed her down to the ground. "Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed But I won't march again on your battlefield" And he took her to the window to see. And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray And she wanted more than she ever could say But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away And would not look at his face again. And he said, "I want to live as an honest man To get all I deserve and to give all I can And to love a young woman who I don't understand Your highness, your ways are very strange." But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait She would only be a moment inside. Out in the distance her order was heard And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred The battle continued on

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Celeste Cosentino posted
at 10:16pm on August 19, 2009

a very talented lady....whom i have negleted to listen to for a while.....

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Maya Sage posted
at 3:18pm on July 30, 2009

This makes me cry so much......

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Charlotte Parry posted
at 10:38am on July 1, 2009

A Goddess with a guitar - please listen to this all the way through, it is a great story and very sad!

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A friend posted
at 11:38am on June 11, 2009

another war song...

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A friend posted
at 8:19pm on May 22, 2009

fab fab fabulous Suzanne Vega!

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