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 ]
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