Old Tattoo

Mama and grandmother

And all you dressed in blue

And tomorrow's town crowds pass you by

They won't have a clue

What you're going through

They won't have a clue

You lost a father and a husband

Just two days ago

To tell the truth I ain't never seen that kinda

Strength down in the soul

The kind that you hold

Down in your soles

'Cause you know time don't heal

This just faint like a flows on an old saloon

You can hide the pain away

Even if it's carved right into you like an old tattoo

Like an old tattoo

Well I'm sorry dear grandfather

And though I've showed up late

Couldn't lay beside you for your last few breaths

Stand by way late and tell y'all the things

That I forgot to say

Did it seem like every Christmas

Was the closest hand we got

That was how ya doin', what else is new

What with beers in the garage

And I was always gone

But I loved ya right or wrong

I know time don't heal this just fade like

The floors of an old saloon

I can hide the pain away

Even if it burns the bitter truth

Like an old tattoo

No it ain't just sting that lies under the skin

There's a heart that gets scarred but never spent

And I know, time don't heal it's just faint like

The floors of that old saloon

I can hide the pain away

Even if it burns the bitter truth

Like an old tattoo

Like an old tattoo