Oh, just wait and you will see, won't you, mara lise? Through the curtains, sees the town and the parades Oh, you know how innocence fades, don't you, mara lise? Marching softly through the weeds in her front yard Up onto the porch to a sip of tea Wounded soldier with a cane and a bitter remedy You'll repay every trick you pulled On the boys that were lost out at sea Oh they drowned in your memory, didn't they, mara lise? You'll repay every senseless act To the boys who were dead in the field Oh you know they're were already killed, don't you, mara lise? Through the curtains, sees the town and the parades Oh, you know how innocence fades, don't you, mara lise? Were you even capable of love? If you were, then how do you know Innocence keeps tabs on the ones it can't see It wet it's lips, and it said "mara lise" Marching softly through the weeds in her front yard Up onto the porch to a sip of tea Wounded woman with a cane and a bitter remedy You'll repay every trick you pulled To the boys that were lost out in the field Oh you know they're were already killed, don't you, mara lise?