The Peking King And The New York Queen

Song The Peking King And The New York Queen
Artist The Doors
Album Dance On Fire

Lyrics

[ti:The Peking King And The New York Queen]
[ar:The Doors]
[al:Dance On Fire]
[00:03.71] The Doors - The Peking King And New York Queen
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[00:29.49] Well, I heard a story you can judge it's worth
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[00:35.96] About the sun and the moon
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[00:37.92] This time they came down to earth
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[00:42.88] They passed in the heavens each day up above
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[00:46.58] Time after time and it soon became love
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[00:49.73] They could not touch, they could not kiss
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[00:52.62] They had no flesh, no earthly bliss
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[01:02.13] So they made a scheme, they made a plan
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[01:08.87] They would come down to earth as a woman and a man
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[01:15.32] She rode a lunar wave, he flew a solar beam
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[01:21.51] They took on human forms to live out a dream
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[01:28.10] The most beautiful people that I've ever seen
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[01:34.69] They were the Peking King and the New York Queen
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[01:40.87] I said the Peking King and the New York Queen.
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[01:54.70] As fate would have it in the toss of the dice
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[02:00.23] They went to opposite ends of this world of our lives
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[02:06.97] Opposite eyes, opposite minds
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[02:13.47] Such things matter in these troubled times.
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[02:43.26] Peking in the East and New York in the West
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[02:53.30] Each place thought that it was the best
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[02:58.92] But the sun and the moon on their earthly quest
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[03:02.48] Knew without a doubt that it was all the best
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[03:05.68] They said what does it matter how you read a book
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[03:09.14] It's all the same no matter how it looks.
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[03:28.70] Well the only thing important to the Peking King
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[03:35.40] Was bein' in the arms of his New York Queen
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[03:42.32] Thousand of miles, they were so far apart
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[03:49.39] How to get together? Oh, where to start?
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[03:55.58] On the California Zephyr and the Shanghai Express
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[04:02.39] He headed to Hong Kong, she headed out west.
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[04:17.53] No passports, no visas, no government quotas
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[04:23.77] No secret missile sites in South Dakota
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[04:30.12] No red tape, no red guard could stop the dream
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[04:36.74] Of the Peking King and the New York Queen
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[04:42.78] I said, the Peking King and the New York Queen
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[04:49.26] Well they found a little island in the Phillipines
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[04:55.62] It was a perfect little place to live out a dream
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[05:02.15] They say East is East, West is West
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[05:08.12] They say the twain won't meet, but don't you take that bet
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[05:14.50] 'Cause you're invited to a wedding and to share the dream
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[05:24.13] Of the Peking King and the New York Queen
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[05:27.54] The Peking King and the New York Queen.
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[05:39.94] 'Cause you're invited to a wedding and to share the dream
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[05:46.34] 'Cause you're invited to a wedding and to share the dream
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[05:52.99] Of the Peking King and the New York Queen
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[05:59.30] The Peking King and the New York Queen.
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[06:11.59] You're invited to the wedding of the sun and the moon