marianne, marianne,   let me do some quick explainin'  you had me wrong, all along,   i thought you find it entertaining,    marianne, marianne,   somehow you thought wy love had ended  you're so upset that you forget,   broken hearts can all be mended    chorus:  coz i was only joking when i said goodbye,  i didn't mean a single word  how could i know that you would take me seriously  and find a new love in your life    marianne, marianne,   if you had only start to listen,  then you'd know, i tried to show,   show you shat you would be missin'    chorus II:  coz i was only joking when i said goodbye,  i didn't mean a single word  how could i know that you would take me seriously  and find a new love in your life    coz i was only joking when i said goodbye,  i didn't know you'd act so fast,  tell him that all of this was just misunderstanding  tell him you took me back again, that you took me back again    ad lib    you believe, i would leave,   but that was just an ugly rumor  so instead, i found a friend,   a man without a sense of humor    repeat chorus II