《The Queen and the Soldier》歌词

[00:00:19] The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door

[00:00:24] He said, "I am not fighting for you any more."

[00:00:29] The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before

[00:00:34] And slowly she let him inside

[00:00:38] He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill

[00:00:43] "And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill

[00:00:48] "But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will

[00:00:53] "Only first I am asking you why."

[00:00:59] Down in the long narrow hall he was led

[00:01:03] Into her rooms with her tapestries red

[00:01:08] And she never once took the crown from her head

[00:01:13] She asked him there to sit down

[00:01:20] He said, "I see you now, and you are so very young

[00:01:25] "But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won

[00:01:30] "And I've got this intuition, says it's all for your fun

[00:01:35] "And now will you tell me why?"

[00:01:40] The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye

[00:01:45] She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try."

[00:01:50] But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry

[00:01:55] But she closed herself up like a fan

[00:02:00] And she said, "I've swallowed a secret burning thread

[00:02:05] "It cuts me inside, and often I've bled."

[00:02:10] He laid his hand then on top of her head

[00:02:15] And he bowed her down to the ground

[00:02:20] "Tell me how hungry are you?How weak you must feel

[00:02:24] "As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed

[00:02:28] "But I won't march again on your battlefield."

[00:02:34] And he took her to the window to see.

[00:02:39] And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray

[00:02:44] And she wanted more than she ever could say

[00:02:49] But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away

[00:02:54] And would not look at his face again

[00:02:59] And he said, "I want to live as an honest man

[00:03:04] "To get all I deserve and to give all I can

[00:03:09] "And to love a young woman who I don't understand

[00:03:14] "Your highness, your ways are very strange."

[00:03:21] But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break

[00:03:26] And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached

[00:03:31] She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait

[00:03:36] She would only be a moment inside

[00:03:41] Out in the distance her order was heard

[00:03:46] And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word

[00:03:50] And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred

[00:03:56] The battle continued on