The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore"
The queen knew she had seen his face someplace before
And slowly she let him inside.
He said, "I see you now, and you're so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I have this intuition that it's all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?"
-- Suzanne Vega, "The Queen and The Soldier"
He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore"
The queen knew she had seen his face someplace before
And slowly she let him inside.
He said, "I see you now, and you're so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I have this intuition that it's all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?"
-- Suzanne Vega, "The Queen and The Soldier"
Related:
- Now I'll give YOU something to believe. I'm just one hundred and
one, five months and a day.
I can't believe THAT!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone.... - Lenny: See, all along I've been telling Carl I'm married to a beauty
queen.
Now, he's coming over for dinner. Marge: Oh, Lenny, I'm sure he'll like your wife no matter what she looks like.... - Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness,
feel the slippery finish.
Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?... - I thought that you said you were 20 years old!"
"As a programmer, yes," she replied,
"And you claimed to be very near two meters tall!
"You said you were blonde, but you lied!" Oh, she was a hacker and he was one, too, They had so much in common, you'd say.... - I'm going to die". (...)
"I shall manage. Don't you worry about me,"
Jack said between clenched teeth.
Joy shook her head. "I think it can be better than that.... - Once Law was sitting on the bench
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping.... - Once Law was sitting on the bench
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping.... - You are old, father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white
And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think, at your age, it is right?...
