More songs by Suzanne Vega
Description
Engineer, Producer, Studio Personnel: Steve Addabbo
Producer: Lenny Kaye
Acoustic Guitar, Associated Performer, Vocalist, Composer Lyricist: Suzanne Vega
Electric Guitar, Associated Performer: Jon Gordon
Associated Performer, Bass Guitar: Frank Gravis
Associated Performer, Drums: Sue Evans
Associated Performer: CP Roth
Lyrics and translation
Original
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. Marlena 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.
Marlena on the wall.
Well, I walk to your house in the afternoon, by the butcher shop with a sawdust room. Don't give away the goods too soon is what you 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.
Marlena 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.
Marlena on the wall.
Marlena 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.
Marlena on the wall.
And 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. Marlena 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.
Marlena 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.
Marlena on the wall.