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 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 sunbeam)
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Okkervil River Songs (97) List All
A Girl In Port
A Glow
A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
A King And A Queen
A Stone
Another Radio Song
Auntie Alice
Black
Black Sheep Boy
Blanket And Crib
Blue Tulip
Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979
Calling And Not Calling My Ex
Can't Be Saved
Dead Dog Song
Dead Faces
Dead!
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X
Falling Away With You
For Real
For The Captain
For The Enemy
Get Big
H.
Hanging From A Hit
Happy Hearts
He Passes Number Thirty-Three
Heaven Help Us
I Hate Myself And Want to Die
Icky Thump
If I Ain't Got You
If I Fall
Imagine
In A Radio Song
In My Daughter's Eyes
In The Name Of God
It Ends With A Fall
John Allyn Smith Sails
Kansas City
Kathy Keller
Lady Liberty
Lay Of The Last Survivor
Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
Little Wonder
Lost Coastlines
Lucky
Maine Island Lovers
Millionaire
Missing
My Bad Days
Oh, Precious
Ohio Is For Lovers
Okkervil River Song
On Tour With Zykos
Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
Pain
Piratess
Plus Ones
Pop Lie
Progenies of The Great Apocalypse
Red
Reinventing Your Exit
Rider
Running Up That Hill
Sad But True
Sanitarium
Savannah Smiles
Seas Too Far To Reach
Silence Is A Scary Sound
Singer Songwriter
So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Sober
Soldiers Of The Wasteland
Song About A Star
Song of Our So-Called Friend
Stand Ins, One
Stand Ins, Two
Starry Stairs
The Last Night
The Latest Toughs
The Rise
The Valley
The Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion
The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
Title Track
Unless It Kicks
Vermillion, Pt. 2
Wake And Be Fine
We Need A Myth
Westfall
What Sarah Said
White Shadow Waltz
Whole Wide World
Wires
Yellow
You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
Your Past Life As A Blast
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