{"id":433,"date":"2008-12-06T00:58:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T09:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/?p=433"},"modified":"2008-12-06T00:58:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T09:58:39","slug":"the-queen-and-the-soldier-suzanne-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/the-queen-and-the-soldier-suzanne-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen and the Soldier – Suzanne Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always had a special place in my consciousness for this tune. I came across her blog<\/a> and appreciated her words on how we define ourselves through the songs we listen to. Well, I am proud to know and love one of hers.<\/p>\n

And he said, “I want to live as an honest man
\nTo get all I deserve and to give all I can
\nAnd to love a young woman who I don’t understand
\nYour highness, your ways are very strange.”<\/p>\n

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The soldier came knocking upon the queen’s door
\nHe said, “I am not fighting for you any more”
\nThe queen knew she’d seen his face someplace before
\nAnd slowly she let him inside.<\/p>\n

He said, “I’ve watched your palace up here on the hill
\nAnd I’ve wondered who’s the woman for whom we all kill
\nBut I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
\nOnly first I am asking you why.”<\/p>\n

Down in the long narrow hall he was led
\nInto her rooms with her tapestries red
\nAnd she never once took the crown from her head
\nShe asked him there to sit down.<\/p>\n

He said, “I see you now, and you are so very young
\nBut I’ve seen more battles lost than I have battles won
\nAnd I’ve got this intuition, says it’s all for your fun
\nAnd now will you tell me why?”<\/p>\n

The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
\nShe said, “You won’t understand, and you may as well not try”
\nBut her face was a child’s, and he thought she would cry
\nBut she closed herself up like a fan.<\/p>\n

And she said, “I’ve swallowed a secret burning thread
\nIt cuts me inside, and often I’ve bled”
\nHe laid his hand then on top of her head
\nAnd he bowed her down to the ground.<\/p>\n

“Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel
\nAs you are living here alone, and you are never revealed
\nBut I won’t march again on your battlefield”
\nAnd he took her to the window to see.<\/p>\n

And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray
\nAnd she wanted more than she ever could say
\nBut she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away
\nAnd would not look at his face again.<\/p>\n

And he said, “I want to live as an honest man
\nTo get all I deserve and to give all I can
\nAnd to love a young woman who I don’t understand
\nYour highness, your ways are very strange.”<\/p>\n

But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
\nAnd she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached
\nShe took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
\nShe would only be a moment inside.<\/p>\n

Out in the distance her order was heard
\nAnd the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word
\nAnd while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred
\nThe battle continued on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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