I have two versions of this song. The first sounds more like the album version.
The second is how SV plays it live, solo.
Marlene on the wall
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tabbed by Bambi Kill (freezetag@hotmail.com) using tab by
Erik Pischel (pischel@informatik.hu-berlin.de) as a starting point
capo 1st fret
chord E A D G B E
E 0 2 2 1 0 0
Aadd2 X 0 2 2 0 0
B/F# 2 X 4 4 0 0
Em7 0 2 2 0 3 0
Cmaj7 X 3 2 0 0 0
Bm7sus4 X 2 4 2 5 2
Bm7 X 2 4 4 3 2
D X X 0 2 3 2
Intro: E | Aadd2 | B/F# | Aadd2
1.
[E]Even if I am in love with you all
[Aadd2]this to say what's it to you? Ob-
[B/F#]serve the blood the rose tatoo of the
[Aadd2]fingerprints on me from you.
[E]other evidence has shown that
[Aadd2]you and I are still alone we
[B/F#]skirt around the danger zone and don't
[Aadd2]talk about it later.
CHORUS
[Em7]Marlene watches from the walls
[Cmaj7]her mocking smile says it all
[Bm7sus4]as she records[Bm7] the rise and
[Cmaj7]fall of every soldier passing
[Em7]but the only soldier now is me
[Cmaj7]I'm fighting things I cannot
[Bm7sus4]see. I think its [Bm7]called my desti-
[Cmaj7]ny but I am changing
[D] Marlene on the wall
[Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7] (Well I)
2.
Walk to your house in the afternoon by the
butcher shop with the saw-dust strewn
"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 re
minded me of the night we kissed and of
]why I should be leaving
CHORUS
3. Instrumental
CHORUS (on last [Cmaj7] words are: "And")
repeat 1st verse
(additional lyrics are "And I" within last bar of 1st verse)
CODA
tried so hard to resist
held me in your handsome fist and re-
minded 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 <1.man whose been here / 2.soldier passing>
but the only <1.one here / 2.soldier> now is me
I'm fighting things I cannot
see I think it's called my desti-
ny but I am changing
<1.changing changing
changing changing :||
/2.Marlene on the wall.>
OUTRO
[Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7] | [D] | [Cmaj7] | [E]
Marlene On the Wall
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(live version)
tabbed by Bambi Kill (freezetag@hotmail.com)
chord E A D G B E
E5 0 7 9 9 0 0
Aadd2 X 0 9 9 0 0
B/F# X 9 11 11 0 0
A X 0 11 9 0 0
Eadd4,7 0 12 12 0 0 0
C 8 10 10 0 0 0
B 7 9 9 0 0 0
D 10 12 12 0 0 0
capo on 1st fret
INTRO & VERSE
E5 Aadd2 B/F# A
CHORUS
Eadd4,7 C B C D C D C
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