[00:19.411]The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
[00:23.659]He said,"I am not fighting for you any more"
[00:28.659]The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before
[00:33.667]And slowly she let him inside.
[00:38.431]He said,"I've watched your palace up here on the hill
[00:43.71]And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
[00:47.805]But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
[00:52.915]Only first I am asking you why."
[00:58.995]Down in the long narrow hall he was led
[01:02.911]Into her rooms with her tapestries red
[01:07.538]And she never once took the crown from her head
[01:12.546]She asked him there to sit down.
[01:19.846]He said,"I see you now,and you are so very young
[01:24.786]But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
[01:29.224]And I've got this intuition,says it's all for your fun
[01:34.660]And now will you tell me why?"
[01:39.738]The young queen,she fixed him with an arrogant eye
[01:42.610]She said,"You won't understand,and you may as well not try"
[01:49.308]But her face was a child's,and he thought she would cry
[01:54.230]But she closed herself up like a fan.
[01:59.414]And she said,"I've swallowed a secret burning thread
[02:04.414]It cuts me inside,and often I've bled"
[02:09.61]He laid his hand then on top of her head
[02:13.862]And he bowed her down to the ground.
[02:38.661]"Tell me how hungry are you?How weak you must feel
[02:43.346]As you are living here alone,and you are never revealed
[02:48.223]But I won't march again on your battlefield"
[02:53.247]And he took her to the window to see.
[02:58.329]And the sun,it was gold,though the sky,it was gray
[03:02.879]And she wanted more than she ever could say
[03:07.797]But she knew how it frightened her,and she turned away
[03:13.39]And would not look at his face again.
[03:18.159]And he said,"I want to live as an honest man
[03:23.37]To get all I deserve and to give all I can
[03:27.721]And to love a young woman who I don't understand
[03:32.553]Your highness,your ways are very strange."
[03:40.344]But the crown,it had fallen,and she thought she would break
[03:44.892]And she stood there,ashamed of the way her heart ached
[03:49.774]She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
[03:54.596]She would only be a moment inside.
[04:00.160]Out in the distance her order was heard
[04:04.370]And the soldier was killed,still waiting for her word
[04:09.376]And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred
[04:14.845]The battle continued on