Drawing a Tattoo Songtext
von Jake Minch

Drawing a tattoo
Hands like a bird
Came back to mine like you promised, you would
Crawled through the window
Dirt in your teeth
If you′re lying down with me

I started talking
And I found your keys
And we spent the day in my childhood sheets
Said nobody out there would listen to me
'Til I started listening

You′ll get taller, and smarter, and grow up without me
And I like to think that we're at the same speed
But there's a person who stays and a person who leaves
You said I gotta keep moving


Mom got a second job
And dad′s still dead
I′m doing better, but I'm losing my hometown friends
You forgot everything that you said
But I didn′t

And I kinda laugh 'cause I knew that it′d happen
But I can't help but wish that you didn′t
Then you caught me talking like I'm so much bigger
You said I'm in the shoes that I left you in

Right before college, your dad′s out of town
You fit a lightbulb inside of your mouth
You were talking so big
Then you were mumbling so proud
But the joke′s that you can't get it out

White room blue curtains and two plastic bags
With the hardest that I′ve ever laughed
Think we found it 'for anyone did
Back when it was safe to be stupid

You call me to tell me you got a girl pregnant
You′re keeping the baby, you're leaving Connecticut
I started giggling, you cried on the phone
Said you felt like before


So you learn to like the sound of a girl falling asleep
You sign up for things that you swore you′d never need
'Cause there's a person who stays and a person who leaves