Suzanne Vega — Marlene On The Wall

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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
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 walked 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 of…