suzanne vega
marlene on the wall
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 the 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  I walk to your house in the afternoon By the butcher's 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 why I should be leaving  Marlene watches from the wall Her mocking smile says it all As the 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  Marlene on the wall