[00:00.000] 作词 : Suzanne Vega
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Suzanne Vega
[00:20.14]The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
[00:24.70]He said, "I am not fighting for you any more"
[00:29.66]And the queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before
[00:35.05]And slowly she let him inside
[00:39.30]He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill
[00:44.02]And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
[00:49.08]But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
[00:54.09]Only first I am asking you why"
[00:59.63]Down the long narrow hall he was led
[01:03.86]Into her rooms with her tapestries red
[01:08.76]And she never once took the crown from her head
[01:13.76]She asked him there to sit down
[01:20.91]He said, "I see you now and you are so very young
[01:25.67]But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
[01:30.35]And I've got this intuition, says it's all for your fun
[01:35.60]And now will you tell me why?"
[01:40.46]Well, the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
[01:44.97]She said, "You won't understand and you may as well not try"
[01:50.19]But her face was a child's and he thought she would cry
[01:55.31]But she closed herself up like a fan
[02:00.36]And she said, "I've swallowed a secret burning thread
[02:05.35]It cuts me inside and often I've bled"
[02:10.38]And he laid his hand then on top of her head
[02:14.99]And he bowed her down to the ground
[02:39.42]"And tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel
[02:44.18]As you are living here alone and you are never revealed
[02:49.03]But I won't march again on your battlefield"
[02:54.27]And he took her to the window to see
[02:59.11]And the sun, it was gold though the sky, it was gray
[03:04.11]And she wanted more than she ever could say
[03:08.80]But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away
[03:13.96]And would not look at his face again
[03:18.79]And he said, "I want to live as an honest man
[03:23.93]To get all I deserve and to give all I can
[03:28.70]And to love a young woman who I don't understand
[03:33.54]Your highness, your ways are very strange"
[03:41.07]But the crown, it had fallen and she thought she would break
[03:45.89]And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached
[03:50.77]And she took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
[03:55.74]She would only be a moment inside
[04:00.71]Out in the distance her order was heard
[04:05.36]And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word
[04:10.41]And while the queen went on strangling
[04:12.93]In the solitude she preferred, the battle continued on