How would Megillat Esther sound if Taylor Swift Re-Recorded it alongside Midnights???
Megillat Esther:
When the king was merry with wine, he ordered Queen Vashti to come before the king wearing a royal diadem, to display her beauty to the peoples and the officials; for she was a beautiful woman. But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command.
he wanted it comfortable / i wanted that pain / he wanted a bride / i was making my own name / chasing that fame / he stayed the same / all of me changed like midnight
Megillat Esther:
Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command.
Queen Vashti has committed an offense not only against Your Majesty but also against all the officials and against all the peoples in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. For the queen’s behavior will make all wives despise their husbands, as they reflect that King Ahasuerus himself ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she would not come..
did you hear my covert narcissism i disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman? (tale as old as time) i wake up screaming from dreaming one day I'll watch as you're leaving and life will lose all its meaning (for the last time)
Megillat Esther:
Esther did not reveal her people or her kindred, for Mordecai had told her not to reveal it.
dear reader / you don't have to answer, just 'cause they asked you / dear reader / the greatest of luxuries is your secrets
Megillat Esther:
All the king’s courtiers in the palace gate knelt and bowed low to Haman, for such was the king’s order concerning him; but Mordecai would not kneel or bow low, for he had explained to them that he was a Jew.
When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel or bow low to him, Haman was filled with rage.But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone; having been told who Mordecai’s people were, Haman plotted to do away with all the Jews, Mordecai’s people, throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
i don't start it but i can tell you how it ends / don't get sad, get even / so on the weekends / i don't dress for friends / lately I've been dressing for revenge
Megillat Esther:
Mordecai had this message delivered to Esther: “Do not imagine that you, of all the Jews, will escape with your life by being in the king’s palace. On the contrary, if you keep silent in this crisis, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, while you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows, perhaps you have attained to royal position for just such a crisis.”
you're on your own, kid / yeah, you can face this / you're on your own, kid / you always have been
Megillat Esther:
Upon hearing of the Jews' fate, Esther put on royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, facing the king’s palace, while the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room facing the entrance of the palace.
As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won his favor.
i polish up real, i polish up real nice
Megillat Esther:
Queen Esther said: “If Your Majesty will do me the favor, and if it pleases Your Majesty, let my life be granted me as my wish, and my people as my request. For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, massacred, and exterminated. Had we only been sold as bondmen and bondwomen, I would have kept silent; for the adversary-a is not worthy of the king’s trouble.”
Thereupon King Ahasuerus demanded of Queen Esther, “Who is he and where is he who dared to do this?”
“The adversary and enemy,” replied Esther, “is this evil Haman!” And Haman cringed in terror before the king and the queen.
half-moon eyes, bad surprise did you realize out of time? she was on your mind with some dickhead guy that you saw that night but you were on somethin' it was one drink after another fuckin' politics and gender roles and you're not sure and i don't know got swept away in the gray i just may like to have a conversation
Megillat Esther:
A stake is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai—the man whose words saved the king.” “Impale him on it!” the king ordered. So they impaled Haman on the stake which he had put up for Mordecai, and the king’s fury abated.
it's coming back around...
'cause karma is my boyfriend
Megillat Esther:
The king has permitted the Jews of every city to assemble and fight for their lives; if any people or province attacks them, they may destroy its armed force and plunder their possession
and i wake with your memory over me / that's a real lastin' legacy, legacy / and i wake with your memory over me / that's a real lastin' legacy to leave