Marianne, marianne
With your voice like silver strings ringing
And sounds of laughter and singing
Keep repeating, marianne, marianne
Marianne, marianne
Oh i can tell better than anyone else could
That there’s more to you than just bad or good
There’s a teardrop or a shaft of light for your heart
Marianne, oh, marianne
The dawn will be breaking soon
And my voice will fade with the moon
And the sunlight will remind me of you
Oh, marianne
Please don’t marry that insurance man
I just saw your picture in the paper
Surrounded by extensive wedding plans
Tell me this is just one of your capers
Say you haven’t met with their demands
Chorus:
Oh, marianne
Love talks cheap and faster than i can
Oh, marianne
Please don’t marry that insurance man
I can’t see you packing up his lunches
I can’t see you diapering his son
You’re the girl who always played her hunches
So how’d you figure out that this was one
Chorus
I’m not saying i grew up in love with you
I’m sayin’, "why grow up at all?"
So tell that hoosier boy to put on clean socks
And the finest double-knits that he can wear
‘cause when that invitation hits my mailbox
I’ll see you at his funeral, my dear
Chorus
Tuna rubber
A little blubber in my igloo
and I knew you pigtails and all
Girls when they fall
And they say Marianne killed herself
and I said not a chance
not a chance
Don’t you love the girls ladies babes
old bags who say she was so pretty
Why why why why did she crawl down in the
old deep ravine
C’mon pigtails girls and all those sailors
Get your bags and hold down won’t you just
hold down cause Ed is watching my every sound
I said they’re watching my every sound
The weasal squeaks faster
than a seven day week
I said Timmy and that purple monkey
are all down at Bobby’s house
making themselves pesters and lesters
and jesters and my
traitors of kind
And I’m just having thougts of Marianne
She could outrun the fastest slug
She could
Marianne
quickest girl in the frying pan
I’m just having thoughts of Marianne
(as interpreted by virgin records japan)
(accuracy is not guaranteed)
I take one look at you
It leaves me breathless
I see your dream’s come true
You’re not so restless
Or light, or bright
Marianne
One day i might not care
What happens to me
Your lack of sympathy fails to disturb me
I’ve got a life of my own
I remember the day
I thought we couldn’t lose
Running round the garden in your mother’s shoes
Playing silly sisters
And drinking green tea
On a cold autumn day
Someone’s car had broken down
The best of summer ends
When you give a celebration
We can leave but we can’t really go on
It would spoil the celebration
Anita, all that’s left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
One day i might not care
What happens to me
Your lack of sympathy
Fails to disturb me
I’ve got a life of my own
Anita, all that’s left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
Marianne
Anita, all that’s left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
Marianne
Anita, all that’s left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
Marianne
Anita, all that’s left is us facing a life
At the end of the world
Marianne
No dia do aniversário do nosso namoro
Acordei até mais cedo
Doidinho pra te ver
E de repente ouvi a campainha
E que surpresa
Quando eu abri a porta
Flores mandadas por você
Quase não acreditei
Que elas eram pra mim
Mas quando li o bilhete que dizia assim:
“Nosso amor foi bom enquanto durou.”
E eu chorando, segurando o maldito buquê
Perdido ainda tentando entender por quê
Nesse desespero comecei a te chamar:
Marianne,
você me prendeu.
Depois diz que não me quer.
Choro e grito por seu nome:
Marianne
Com você meu mundo é mais feliz.
Bate forte o coração.
Volta e vem amor, me ame,
Marianne.
