Even if I am in love with you
All this to say, what's it to you?
Observe the blood, the rose tattoo
Of the fingerprints on me from you
Other evidence has shown
That you and I are still alone
We skirt around the danger zone
And don't talk about it later
Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing
But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing
Marlene on the wall
Well, I walk to your house in the afternoon
By the butcher shop with the sawdust strewn
Don't give away the goods too soon
Is what she might have told me
And I tried so hard to resist
When you held me in your handsome fist
And reminded me of the night we kissed
And why I should be leaving
Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing
But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing
Marlene on the wall
Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing
But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing
Marlene on the wall
And even if I am in love with you
All this to say what's it to you
Observe the blood, the rose tattoo
Of the finger prints on me from you
Other evidence has shown
That you and I are still alone
We skirt around the danger zone
And don't talk about it later
And I tried so hard to resist
When you held me in your handsome fist
And reminded me of the night we kissed
And of why I should be leaving
Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every man who's been here
But the only one here now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing, changing,
changing, changing, changing,
Marlene watches from the wall
Her mocking smile says it all
As she records the rise and fall
Of every soldier passing
But the only soldier now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot see
I think it's called my destiny
That I am changing
Marlene on the wall
- :
- Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles
- Close-Up Vol. 4, Songs of Family
- Close-Up Vol 1: Love Songs
- Beauty & Crime
- Songs In Red And Gray
- Nine Objects of Desire
- 99.9F°
- Days of Open Hand
- Solitude Standing
- Suzanne Vega
- Miscellaneous
- Close-Up Vol. 2, People And Places
- Lilith Fair - A Celebration of Women in Music, Vol. 1 (Live)
- Live At Warfield Theatre, San Francisco 6 Aug 87 - Both...
- In Concert (Live at the Coach House, San Juan Capistano...
- Live at the Bottom Line, NY May 24th 1986 (Remastered)
- Cracking (Live in San Francisco)
- Rock Werchter 40
- Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega
- Men in a War