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 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 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
But 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 

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