Marlene On The Wall

Album: Suzanne Vega (1985)
Charted: 21
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Suzanne Vega
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • AnonymousIn live performances, Vega told a slightly different story of this song.
    The idea came to her when she was house-sitting for a friend, and in the lonely night turned on the TV in the bedroom.
    It was one of those old tube-style TV's which had to warm up before displaying the picture, but the audio started up pretty quickly.
    As the TV went on, she saw a blank screen and heard a man telling a woman how many men she had destroyed with her smile.
    Then the picture came on, with a full screen image of Marlene, in which she responds (as Vega said, in the only way Dietrich would) simply "Kiss Me".
    This morphed into a fantasy about Marlene looking through the TV at the goings on in the friend's bedroom, and that's what the lyrics are about.
  • Max from New York, NyYeah that was clever on Tarantino's part. Man poor suzanne, she's just famous for having things done to her behind her back without permission. Like DNA and her acapella, but when it made her famous, she didn't complain... but she's actually not very proud of it and doesn't assosiate herself with it.
  • Kieran from Harlow, United StatesA gr8 artist. Fictional cousin of Vincent Vega (from Pulp Fiction) i'd like to hear her opinion on Tarantino including that into his script. Caramel is my favourite tune.
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