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The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door 
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He said: "I am not fighting for you anymore" 
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And the queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before 
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And slowly she let him inside 
 

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He said: "I've watched your palace up here on the hill 
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And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill 
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But I am leaving tomorrow, and you can do what you will 
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Only first I am asking you why" 
 

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  Down the long narrow hall he was led 
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Into her room with her tapestries red 
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And she never once took the crown from her head 
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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 
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And he bowed her down to the ground 


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"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 
 

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Out in the distance her order was heard 
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And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word 
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And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred 
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The battle continued on 


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