Long live the Queen
Is all that’s heard above the screams
And the parapet crumbled
And her dress was torn

And all they could say
Was ‘we were never warned’
And the Queen lived long
But her heart died long ago

And she could never stop it
And she never stopped to think why
And that parapet still crumbled
And the dress faded more

The King went of to war
And the Prince went off to sea
And the daughters stayed to pray
And the Queen had nothing to say

The poets dreamt in words
And the minstrels spun their songs
And the jesters told their stories
But the Queen was still a stone

The King lost the war
The Prince was lost at sea
The daughters prayers were heard
And the Queen saw it all from afar

And the kingdom went on
And people lived in peace
And the parapet stayed crumbled
And the dresses stayed in the dark