The titular Queen in this song refers to the tyrannical playing card monarch in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. However, the lyrics reference Through the Looking-Glass' Red Queen, who is a chess piece. Though in his stories they are two different characters, in the 1951 animated film Alice in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts delivers several of the Red Queen's statements.
In discussing the track, singer Biff Byford said that "With 'Queen of Hearts', I wanted to write something around Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland, and it's about the chess game that happens in the story. I wanted it to have prog-feeling in the way of its ambiance and mood."
The titular Queen in this song refers to the tyrannical playing card monarch in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. However, the lyrics reference Through the Looking-Glass' Red Queen, who is a chess piece. Though in his stories they are two different characters, in the 1951 animated film Alice in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts delivers several of the Red Queen's statements.
In discussing the track, singer Biff Byford said that "With 'Queen of Hearts', I wanted to write something around Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland, and it's about the chess game that happens in the story. I wanted it to have prog-feeling in the way of its ambiance and mood."