your tattoo chords by Jonathan Coulton

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Verse 1
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Black and blue
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Every time I lean into you
You think the words don't
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mean what they do
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Killing me so slow

Verse 2

So it's home instead

Memorize your scars in the bed

Making me see stars in my head

Baby, you don't know

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Verse 3

One rough summer and too much sun

The lines get blurry and

the colors run

And the red bleeds out with the blue

Verse 4
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Secret in the shape of the way it hurt
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Planning an escape from beneath your shirt
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Do you know I love your tattoo?
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Your tattoo
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Verse 5

Your tattoo

Verse 6

You were there

Little sparks and wire in the air

Everything on fire everywhere

Punishment and crime

Verse 7

Black and white

It's keeping me up late every night

Thinking I can't wait, but I might

Everything in time

Verse 8

Gray gives way to the deepest black

Promises you made and can't

take back

When you look too long, you see through

Verse 9
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Falling over on the edge
where the ink is thin
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Coming up close against your skin
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Do you know I love your tattoo?
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Your tattoo
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