Colin Hilton - Marlene Lyrics

It's the friends you can call at 4am who'll listen if you're tearing out your hair or just your him within
Lights go down the score unfolds that wisp has broke her hip I'm told pride absorbs the pain
Determination waits for nobody's wings tungsten blasts of yellow cast the woman within
Keys are slammed brass cracks pronounce a joke flicks the holder takes a toke
Silence plays the game
Mary Magdalene split your gender crop your name
Walk the boards Berlin to Bonn where have all the flowers gone?
Ghosted face top hat and tails painted brow with scarlet nails
Tap your stick hand on the till you reinvented vaudeville
Lovers from the world a voice like sour dew a man without his tenderness is nothing to lose
Critics go and shoot the breeze while women imitate her tease
Glamour takes a bow
You knew how to hold and love and chastise them
Smoke would fill your laughter close your eyes and whisper when
A wink in time could fill a sterile stage off beat gasps and comic rage
A grin beneath the fan you became the female man
Mary Magdalene split your gender crop your name
Walk the boards Berlin to Bonn where have all the flowers gone?
Ghosted face top hat and tails painted brow with scarlet nails
Tap your stick hand on the till you reinvented vaudeville