Okkervil River A King and a Queen Lyrics:
If you want to see and be seen, then be seen. Your
dress is dark red and your opening eyes are bright
green. Make a scene, but don't lie on the bed,
laid out like you're dead, because honey,
you're murdering me. Be a little sheep learning
who'll shear and who'll feed. The hands come
and they leave. Be hands holding a knife. Be a
being on two feet, with his heart trembling,
butchering for a king he believes in though he's
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never seen. Be the princess in that stone tower,
crying for that handsome butcher's plight (and,
as some princess might, she still calls him a
knight.) But the best thing for you would be
queen, so be queen. You're all that I need.
Though I know that it never can be, I'd be
pleased to post your decrees, to fall at your
knees, to name all your streets and to sit down
and weep when you're carried back through them
and set down to sleep, and to lie by your side for
sublime centuries (until we crumble to dust when
we're crushed by a single sun
Lyrics: A King and a Queen, Okkervil River [end]