[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:19.74]The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door [00:24.06]He said I am not fighting for you any more [00:29.23]The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before [00:33.64]And slowly she let him inside [00:38.62]He said I've watched your palace up here on the hill [00:43.31]And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill [00:48.32]But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will [00:53.30]Only first I am asking you why [00:59.19]Down in the long narrow hall he was led [01:03.29]Into her rooms with her tapestries red [01:07.86]And she never once took the crown from her head [01:13.13]She asked him there to sit down [01:20.17]He said I see you now and you are so very young [01:24.76]But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won [01:29.78]And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun [01:34.75]And now will you tell me why [01:39.88]The young queen she fixed him with an arrogant eye [01:44.51]She said You won't understand and you may as well not try [01:49.68]But her face was a child's and he thought she would cry [01:54.41]But she closed herself up like a fan [01:59.45]And she said I've swallowed a secret burning thread [02:04.70]It cuts me inside and often I've bled [02:09.69]He laid his hand then on top of her head [02:14.23]And he bowed her down to the ground [02:38.68]Tell me how hungry are you How weak you must feel [02:43.31]As you are living here alone and you are never revealed [02:48.39]But I won't march again on your battlefield [02:53.45]And he took her to the window to see [02:58.42]And the sun it was gold though the sky it was gray [03:03.21]And she wanted more than she ever could say [03:08.25]But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away [03:13.27]And would not look at his face again [03:17.89]And he said I want to live as an honest man [03:23.00]To get all I deserve and to give all I can [03:27.90]And to love a young woman who I don't understand [03:32.72]Your highness your ways are very strange [03:40.17]But the crown it had fallen and she thought she would break [03:45.06]And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached [03:50.18]She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait [03:54.80]She would only be a moment inside [04:00.02]Out in the distance her order was heard [04:04.58]And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word [04:09.52]And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred [04:14.71]The battle continued on