I agree with lostinspace that it's a metaphor -- but not just for a lovestory (though it fits that too). Try this notion:
The conversation is the symbolic, inner monologue of a person faced with some undefined need to change their life (possibly growing into an adult lovelife -- that'd explain why voices are different genders). Their sense says they should -- their heart says it's too risky, they might lose even the partial happiness they have now, and it's better to continue as they have.
The Queen is the heart, passion, impulse, youth, emotion, fear of change. She's powerful, but impetuous and uncertain and makes bad calls because of that. ("The young queen she fixed him with an arrogant eye, she said 'You won't understand, and you may as well not try,' but her face was a child's and he thought she would cry")
The Soldier is sense, growing up, experience, understanding, responsibility. Like good common sense, he's simple, confident, and bluntly honest. ("'How hungry are you, how weak you must feel, as you are living here alone and you are never revealed" -- "I want to live as an honest man, get all I deserve, and give all I can")
The question is faced, sense seems to have won, but at the last minute the person allows their emotion to take hold again. ("And he took her to the window to see. Well the sun it was gold, though the sky it was gray, and she wanted more than she ever could say, but she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away, and would not look at his face again")
The Queen orders the soldier killed, and the battle continues -- aka, the person doesn't make the life-change their good sense is trying to tell them is desperately needed.
Yeah, it's a beautiful song. All the better because it's so hard to decode.
@delay, I think you nailed it. A metaphoric war story where love is the casualty and nobody gets out alive. Neither the soldier nor the queen, who most tragically is destined never to know what conditions her, nor what really traps her in her own kingdom.
@delay, I think you nailed it. A metaphoric war story where love is the casualty and nobody gets out alive. Neither the soldier nor the queen, who most tragically is destined never to know what conditions her, nor what really traps her in her own kingdom.
I agree with lostinspace that it's a metaphor -- but not just for a lovestory (though it fits that too). Try this notion:
The conversation is the symbolic, inner monologue of a person faced with some undefined need to change their life (possibly growing into an adult lovelife -- that'd explain why voices are different genders). Their sense says they should -- their heart says it's too risky, they might lose even the partial happiness they have now, and it's better to continue as they have.
The Queen is the heart, passion, impulse, youth, emotion, fear of change. She's powerful, but impetuous and uncertain and makes bad calls because of that. ("The young queen she fixed him with an arrogant eye, she said 'You won't understand, and you may as well not try,' but her face was a child's and he thought she would cry")
The Soldier is sense, growing up, experience, understanding, responsibility. Like good common sense, he's simple, confident, and bluntly honest. ("'How hungry are you, how weak you must feel, as you are living here alone and you are never revealed" -- "I want to live as an honest man, get all I deserve, and give all I can")
The question is faced, sense seems to have won, but at the last minute the person allows their emotion to take hold again. ("And he took her to the window to see. Well the sun it was gold, though the sky it was gray, and she wanted more than she ever could say, but she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away, and would not look at his face again")
The Queen orders the soldier killed, and the battle continues -- aka, the person doesn't make the life-change their good sense is trying to tell them is desperately needed.
Yeah, it's a beautiful song. All the better because it's so hard to decode.
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@delay, I think you nailed it. A metaphoric war story where love is the casualty and nobody gets out alive. Neither the soldier nor the queen, who most tragically is destined never to know what conditions her, nor what really traps her in her own kingdom.
@delay, I think you nailed it. A metaphoric war story where love is the casualty and nobody gets out alive. Neither the soldier nor the queen, who most tragically is destined never to know what conditions her, nor what really traps her in her own kingdom.