歌曲名 The Queen And The Soldier

歌手名 Suzanne Vega

作词：Suzanne Vega

作曲：Suzanne Vega

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

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 battlefielt

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