So Long, Marianne - James

Come over to the window, my little darling

I’d like to try to read your palm

I’m standing on a ledge, and you fine spider’s web

Is fastening my ankle to the bone

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again

We met when we were almost young

You made me forget so very much

I forgot to pray for the angels

And then the angels forgot to pray for us

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again

For now I need your hidden love

I’m cold as a new razor blade

You left when I told you I was curious

But I never said that I was brave

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again

About it all again

So long, Marianne

So long, Marianne

Marianne!

Marianne!

Now you’re really such a pretty one

I see you’ve gone and changed your name again

And just when I climbed this whole mountainside

I see you in the distance, on the plains

So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began

To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again

About it all again

About it all again

So long, Marianne

So long, Marianne

All the fights

With that big kitchen knife

All the lies

And the hate that you spat

All those long, long, furious nights

All those long, long, furious nights

All the tears that we shed

The excitement we had

And the unmade bed

With that big kitchen knife

And the crimes we committed at night

Yeah, the crimes we committed at night

For a love we could never get right

For a love we could never get right

So long, Marianne!

So long, Marianne!

Marianne!