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"Queen Victoria" is a track by Leonard Cohen, from the album Live Songs, released 1st April 1973. Full lyrics are available below.
Lyrics
Queen Victoria My father and all his tobacco loved you I love you too in all your forms The slim unlovely virgin floating among German beards The mean governess of the huge pink maps The solitary mourner of a prince Queen Victoria I am cold and rainy I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station I feel like an empty cast-iron exhibition I want ornaments on everything Because my love she gone with other boys Queen Victoria Do you have a punishment under the white lace? Will you be short with her, make her read those little Bibles? Will you spank her with a mechanical corset? I want her pure as power I want her skin slightly musty with petticoats Will you wash the easy bidet out of her head? Queen Victoria I'm not much nourished by modern love Will you come into my life With your sorrow and your black carriages And your perfect memory? Queen Victoria The 20th Century belongs to you and me Let us be two severe giants (not less lonely for our partnership) Who discolour test tubes in the halls of science Who turn up unwelcome at every World's Fair Heavy with proverb and correction Confusing the star-dazed tourists With our incomparable sense of loss
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