Key: Bm
Introduction: Bm G D A D A Bm G D A D
Bm G
The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
D A D A
He said, "I am not fighting for you any more"
Bm G
And the queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before
D A D
And slowly she let him inside
Bm G
He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill
D A D A
And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
Bm G
But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
D A D
Only first I am asking you why"
G F#m
Down in the long narrow hall he was led
E4 E
Into her rooms with her tapestries red
Bm G
And she never once took the crown from her head
D A D
She asked him there to sit down
Bm G
He said, "I see you now, and you are so very young
D A D A
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
Bm G
And I've got this intuition, says it's all for your fun
D A D
And now will you tell me why?"
Bm G
Well the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
D A D A
She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"
Bm G
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
D A D
But she closed herself up like a fan
G F#m
And she said, "I've swallowed a secret burning thread
E4 E
It cuts me inside, and often I've bled"
Bm G
He laid his hand then on top of her head
D A D
And he bowed her down to the ground
Bm G
"Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel
D A D A
As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed
Bm G
But I won't march again on your battlefield"
D A D
And he took her to the window to see
Bm G
And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray
D A D A
And she wanted more than she ever could say
Bm G
But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away
D A D
And would not look at his face again
G F#m
And he said, "I want to live as an honest man
E4 E
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
Bm G
And to love a young woman who I don't understand
D A D
Your highness, your ways are very strange."
Bm G
But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
D A D A
And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached
Bm G
She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
D A D
She would only be a moment inside
Bm G
Out in the distance her order was heard
D A D A
And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word
Bm G
And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred
D A D A
The battle continued on