The Queen and The Soldier

{introduçao}                                               {introduçao}                                          The soldier came knocking upon the queen’s door           He said: "I am not fighting for you anymore" And 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 the long narrow hall he was led      Into her room 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?"      Well 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 have swallowed a secret burning thread It cuts me inside and often I’ve bled" And he laid his hand then on the top of her head And he bowed her down to the ground {"Ooooo"}                                                   {"Ooooo"}                                                   "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 grey 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 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 whom 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          And 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 strangling in the solitude she preferred                  The battle continued on       {"Ooooo"}                                                   {"Ooooo"}