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Queen for a Day
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The louder you play it, the better it sounds.
We were formed in January 1980 in the basement of the drummer's house in DeKalb County, Georgia. We debuted on December 6, 1980 at the Christmas dance at Shamrock High School. In the summer of 1981, we recorded two songs (In the Name of Rock and Roll and Queen for a Day) at Monarch Studios in Alpharetta, Georgia and submitted them for consideration by a local radio station (96rock) for inclusion in its Home Cookin' II LP. Out of over 1100 submissions, In the Name of Rock and Roll was one of the 12 songs selected for the album (released in the summer of 1982). In fall 1982, we recorded another eight songs at Monarch for inclusion on a demo. We disbanded the following year, but the 10 recordings were kept by our producer, Steve Starnes, and Monarch's engineer, Larry Turner. Steve and Larry were able to successfully digitally transfer the surviving copies of these songs to CD in 2007, and after obtaining the necessary U.S. copyrights, we were able (finally) to distribute them under the Catapult Distribution label to digital download sites like iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, emusic, and Amazon on June 1, 2009, where they are currently available for sale to the public.
Song Info
Genre
Metal Heavy Metal
Charts
Peak #39
Peak in subgenre #13
Author
Music by Clay Hayes, Lyrics by Brett Hart
Rights
1981, 2007 by Clay Hayes and Brett Hart
Uploaded
July 21, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:38
Story behind the song
The song is about Freya, the Norse goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Balder and Frygga, all of whom lived in the Asgaard, the Norse equivalent of Mount Olympus. The day Freya was the queen for was the day named after her -- Friday. Let's say the song is the Norse version of the adage, "Thank God it's Friday!"
Lyrics
The mad game the world so loves to play, In heaven or in earth. The gods know that they must be destroyed, It's a legacy from birth. Something riddled, something rhymed, Something sight unseen, Life to her is a shattered game Of which she is the queen. And it's just a game Do you know her name? Do you think she'll cry? When I finally die? Inside, outside, Balder's alarmed, He knows what is to be. Frygga's life is not her own With a daughter such as she. The woman god should have made before man As long as the parts were fresh, Is about to stir the Asgaard's pot Into a terrible mess. And it's just a game Do you know her name? Do you think she'll cry? When I finally die? To love, there is beauty To passion, flame With mortals such as we, And in the end We choose to blame it on Goddesses such as she. 'Cause she's a Queen for a day, Queen for a day, Queen for a day, She's a queen for a day.
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