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Feist – Monarch (1999) | Track profile | Dork

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Feist
Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)
Monarch

TRACK

Monarch

Release date: 24th August 1999

From Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)

About This Track

"Monarch" is a track by Feist, from the album Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down), released 24th August 1999. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Feist.

About the Artist

Feist

Feist

Lyrics

Monarch

The Queen had a faint, and had a fall

Don't give me ether or open my vein

I'm sane, I know I'm sane

I don't give a care for the crown or the shield

I will not protect you or happily yeild to the one

Who makes me come undone

Who was born and in what way

All the fields and poppies lay

Who was born and in what way

All the fields

The Queen is walking away with only her stockings on

Raven hair and forbidden pears and song

Valiant tune, the colours are too gold

Colours of the morning old

Who was born and in what way

All the fields and poppies lay

Who was born and in what way

All the fields

Monarch now lay your jeweled head

Monarch now lay your jeweled head

Monarch now lay your jeweled

Monarch now lay your jeweled head

Monarch now lay your jeweled head

Monarch now lay your jeweled head

The queen saw the beast in the ribs of the garden

Husband, dear, you are nearer to the eye

Your throne places you in holy pardon

So why the hand of God

Why the hand of God, through you is so cruel

Who was born

In what way

Who was born

In what way

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Track details

From Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)

1999

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Album

Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)

Release year

1999

—Flight #303
—The Mast
—Monarch
—It's Cool to Love Your Family
—La Sirena
—The Onliest
—That's What I Say, It's Not What I Mean
—One Year A.D.
—New Torch
—Still True

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Feist
Producer: Dan Kurtz