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 shot with the sawdust strewn 
"Don't give away the goods too soon" 
Is waht she might have told me 
 
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