Tattoo

Seventeen years trying get it just right

Taking my time, filling up pages of a notebook

Funny little faces and a mess of lines

Images of you would play on loop in my mind

Like a perfect design, waiting for the day that I could

Hold you, feel you, make you come to life

You were like a first tattoo

Everything I wanted but a bit askew

Very different than the picture

Hurt a little more than I expected to

You were like a first tattoo

It happened so fast, it was over too soon

Now you're never going anywhere

Cause you're too hard

To remove

Seventeen has faded to a memory

Modern history, but it plays on like a technicolor

Movie, through me, playing on my skin

I have gotten more since you went away

In different shapes and different shades, and

Every single one since you has been easier to place

You were like a first tattoo

Everything I wanted but a bit askew

Very different than the picture

Hurt a little more than I expected to

You were like a first tattoo

It happened so fast, it was over too soon

Now you're never going anywhere

Cause you're too hard

To remove

Whoa whoa whoa

Now the colored ink is bleeding and the black has turned to gray

But I can still remember loving you the day I drew your name

You were like a first tattoo

Everything I wanted but a bit askew

Very different than the picture

Hurt a little more than I expected to

You were like a first tattoo

It happened so fast, it was over too soon

Now you're never going anywhere

Cause you're too hard

To remove