Tom : E
(So all these chords below are one halfstep higher recorded!)
Intro: E | E4 | F#m4 | A9
(Last warning: these are the chords for guits w/ capo on 1st fred.
If you play bass or w/o capo, the intro is
F | F4 | Gm7/4 | Bb9 etc/)
1.
E
Even if I am in love with you all
E4
this to say what's it to you? Ob-
F#m4
serve the blood the rose tatoo of the
A9
fingerprints on me from you.
E
other evidence has shown that
A4
you and I are still alone we
F#m4
skirt around the danger zone and don't
A9
talk about it later.
CHORUS
Em7
Marlene watches from the walls
C7M C6
her mocking smile says it all
Bm7/4 Bm7
as she records the rise and
C7M
fall of every soldier passing
Em7
but the only soldier now is me
C7M C6
I'm fighting things I cannot
Bm7/4 Bm7
see. I think its called my desti-
G/C D/C G/C C9
ny but I am changing
D
Marlene on the wall
[ C7M] | [ D ] | [ C7M] (Well I)
2.
E
Walk to your house in the afternoon by the
E4
butcher shop with the saw-dust strewn
F#m4
"don't give away the goods too soon" is
A9
what you might have told me and I
E
tried so hard to resist when you
E4
held me in your handsome fist and re
F#m4
minded me of the night we kissed and of
A9
why I should be leaving
CHORUS
3. Instrumental
CHORUS (on last
C7M
words are: "And")
repeat 1st verse
(additional lyrics are "And I" within last bar of 1st verse)
CODA
E
tried so hard to resist
E4
held me in your handsome fist and re-
F#m4
minded me of the night we kissed and of
A9
why I should be leaving.
| | :
Em7
Marlene watches from the wall
C7M C6
her mocking smile says it all
Bm7/4
as she records the rise and
C7M
fall of every 1.man whose been here / 2.soldier passing
Em7
but the only 1.one here / 2.soldier now is me
C7M C6
I'm fighting things I cannot
Bm7/4 Bm7
see I think it's called my desti-
G/C D/C G/C C9
ny but I am changing
D
<1.changing changing
C7M
changing changing : | |
D
/2. Marlene on the wall.>
OUTRO
[ C7M] | [ D ] | [ C7M] | [ D ] | [ C7M] | [ E ]