I Might Have Been Queen

I’m a new pair of eyes every time I am born 

An original mind because I just died 

And I’m scanning the horizon 

For someone recognizing that I might have been Queen 

For every sun that sets there is a new one dawning

For every empire crushed there is a brand new nation

Let the waters rise, I have ridden each tide

From the gates of the city where the first born died 

 

 

Refrain:       And I might have been Queen

I remember the girl in the fields with no name

She had a love

But the rivers won’t stop for me

No, the rivers won’t stop to me

 

I’m a new pair of eyes, an original mind

with my senses of old and the heart of a giant

And I’m searching through the wreckage

For some recollection that I might have been Queen

 

For every sage that falls there’s an ancient child.

 

 

I look up to the stars with my perfect memory

I look through it all and my future is no shock to me

I look down but I see no tragedy

I look up to the stars ’til I find my destiny

I look up to my past, a spirit running free

I look down, I look down and I’m there in history

Oh, I’m a SOUL SURVIVOR!

 

sole survivor on the river but it won’t stop (back-ups)

 

This powerhouse rock ballad sung by Ms. Tina Turner is a rock classic. If you don’t know it then you don’t love Rock and Roll! 

 

Soul survivor?  Me, too Tina! Me too !   MWAH !

 

                                                                                             She listened to me unreadable,

unmoved, with  narrowed eyes,

closed lips, flushed face,

as if carved six thousand years ago

in order to fix forever that something secret and obscure

which is in all women.

Not the gross immobility of a  Sphinx  proposing  roadside  riddles,

but the finer immobility,

almost sacred,

of a fateful figure seated at

 the very source  of the passions that have  moved men

from the dawn of  ages.  

 

From The Arrow of Gold- Conrad