The ghost of her   Floats over there   And the smile, the smile    It seems so lonely   She gave me her hand   As I struck up the band   And she seemed to sigh, she seemed to sigh   ‘You’re the only’      And then we danced like two snowflakes    In the fallen wind   In the wind   And in   Won’t you let Marlene come in      The gymnasium floor   The price bound door   The jungle bird the jungle bird    That you showed me   Her love was so clean   To tell the truth Marlene   The sound of your tambourine still owns me      We were so young then   Now that I’m old I know, oh I know   I loved you right then   I would have made Marlene let go      My friends in the bars   Hell they only see the scars   And I do not give a damn, I do not give a damn That I loved you   I don’t know why    But once you seen the sky   You think you know all birds are lovely      But this snow on the ground    It would start tonight   It’s 22 years dead    Since I saw the light      The world it explodes   As such a high powered load   To run, to run, to run   Was all I left me   Appeared as breeze   High in the clouds we’ll freeze   To fly, to fly away    Was the lesson      You know the fire it burned her life out   Left me little more   I am a crippled singer   And it evens up the score      The ghost of her   It floats over there   And the smile, the smile   It seems so lonely   She gave me her hand   As I struck up the band   And she seemed to sigh, she seemed to sigh   ‘You’re the only’      And then we danced like two snowflakes    In the fallen wind   In the wind   And in   Won’t you let Marlene come in   And in   Won’t you let Marlene come in