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Virgin Queen Elizabeth the first


there are more important things

than some feeling that may wash over me

said Elizabeth the first

it may look like I have everything

but I have nothing but my work

I am no Sleeping Beauty

to be awakened by lover's first kiss

I must speak all in riddles never saying what I mean

and if I can't have you

if I can't have you

I'll stay,  I'll stay the Virgin Queen


your touch won't bring me comfort

it will only bring me down

under the crown of my loneliness

I don't need to possess you

and I don't want to be possessed

I am no Cinderella

waiting for some unbroken shoe to fit

in some cellar some place unwashed and unseen

and if I can't have you

if I can't have you

then I'll stay,  I'll stay the Virgin Queen


I can form no allegiance or my power is lost

I must maintain my defenses though my life is the cost

and if you rogues were to see me weep

see the rage that I conceal

you'd go running to keep

what you came to me to steal


what have I done to have to sit here on my own

on this throne  forever alone

I am weak and longing not to speak

stronger than you know

I am no Snow White

the pawn in some poison apple scheme

and though I know one day I'll die

I'll never go back to sleep

and if I can't have you

if I can't have you

then I'll stay,  I'll stay the Virgin Queen

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