Chords for Suzanne Vega - Queen and the Soldier (1983)

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_ _ _ _ [A#] The soldier came knocking [F#] upon the queen's door.
He [C#] said, I [G#] am not fighting [C#] for you [G#] anymore.
And [A#] the queen knew she'd seen his [F#] face someplace before, [C#] and slowly [G#] she let him inside.
_ _ _ He said, [A#] I've watched your palace up [F#] here on the hill, and [G#] I've wondered who's the woman
for whom we [G#] all kill, but I am [A#m] leaving _ tomorrow, and you can [F#] do what you will.
_ [C#] Only first I [G#] am asking you why.
_ _ _ [F#] And down the long, narrow [C#] hall he was led, _ [D#] into her room with her _ tapestries red.
She never once took the [F#] crown from her head.
_ [C#] She asked [G#] him there to [C#] sit down. _
_ [G#] He [A#] said, I see you now, and [F#] you are so very young, [C#] but I've seen more [G#] battles lost [C#] than
I have [G#]
battles won, and [A#m] I've got this intuition, [F#] says it's all for your fun.
[C#] And now [C] will you [C#] tell me why? _
_ [A#m] Well the young queen, she fixed him [F#] with an arrogant eye.
She [C#] said, you won't [G#]
understand, [C#] and you may as well [G#] not try.
[A#] But her face was a child, [F#] and he thought she would cry, [C#] but she closed [C] herself up like [C#] a fan. _ _
_ [F#] And she said, I've swallowed a [C#] secret burning thread.
[D#] It cuts me _ inside, and often [D#m] I've [A#m] bled.
And he laid his hand then [F#] on the top of her head, [C#] and he [G#] bowed her down [C#] to the ground. _
And [A#] tell me how [A#m] hungry are you, [F#] how weak you must feel, [C#] as you are living [A#] here alone, and
[C#] you are never [G#] revealed.
But [A#m] I won't march again in the [F#] _ _ battlefield.
_ [C#] And he took her to [G#] the window to [C#] see. _ _
And [A#m] the sun, it was gold, [F#] though the sky it was gray.
[C#] And she [G#] wanted more [C#] than she ever [G#] could say.
[A#m] But she knew how it frightened [F#] her, and she turned away, [C#] and would not look [A#] at his face again. _ _ _
And he [F#] said, I want to live [C#] as an honest man, [D#] to get all I deserve, and to give all [A#m] I have.
_ And to love a young woman who [F#] I don't _ understand.
[C#] Your Highness, [A#] your ways are very strange. _
_ [A#] But the crown, it [A#m] had fallen, [F#] and she thought she would break.
[C#] She stood there, [G#]
ashamed of the way her [G#] heart ached.
[A#] And she took him to the doorstep, [F#] and she asked him to wait.
[C#] She would only [G#] be a moment [C#] in sight. _
_ [A#] And out [A#m] in the distance, [F#] her order was heard.
And [C#] the soldier was [C#] killed, still waiting for [G#] her word.
And [A#m] while the queen went on _ [F#] strangling in the solitude she preferred, _ [C#] the battle _
[C] _ [C#] continued _ [C] on.
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