| Suzanne Vega – The Queen And The Soldier Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Erm It's about power and the way people cling onto it. Suzanne Vega has said it herself several times. I know it's sometimes interesting to search for hidden meanings but this thread stretches that search beyond the borders of the lyrics and into the hinterlands of the imagination. MaryLilaWest is fairly close, but it is not necessary to assume this is some artifact of an abusive (in a modern PC sense) childhood and invent a backstory. If it is about power then it is about no and every man. Suzanne was explicit that the queen is a metaphor "I know that I wanted to write a song about a woman who was in power and it's hard to find a symbol for someone like that, expecially in America. So I chose the queen to do that." The Performing Songwriter Magazine Interview, by Bill DeMain (http://www.vega.net/perfsong.htm) And concerning the song's focus on power "To me, that was a song about power. It was a song about power and the misuse of power and how people hang on to it, no matter what, even if it means that they are ultimately unhappy and suffering because of it. Generation Magazine, December 9 1986, Suzanne Vega Interview, by Allan Rousselle" ATEOTD I think one has to accept that writers have some insight and are not mere portals or conduits into their own, or a Gestalt Consciousness. |
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