Your Tattoo - Jonathan Coulton

Black and blue

Every time I lean into you

You think the words don’t mean what they do

Killin' me so slow

So it’s home instead

Memorize your scars in the bed

Makin' me see stars in my head

Baby, you don’t know

One rough summer and too much sun

The lines get blurry and the colors run

And the red bleeds out with the blue

A secret in the shape of the way it hurt

Planning an escape from beneath your shirt

Do you know I love Your Tattoo?

Your Tattoo

Your Tattoo

You were there

Little sparks of wire in the air

Everything on fire everywhere

Punishment and crime

Black and white

Keepin' me up late every night

Thinkin' I can’t wait, but I might

Everything in time

Gray gives away to the deepest black

Promises you made and can’t take back

When you look too long, you see through

Over on the edge where the ink is thin

Comin' up close against your skin

Do you know I love Your Tattoo?

Your Tattoo

Your Tattoo