Your Tattoo - Jonathan Coulton

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

So it's home instead
Memorize your scars in the bed
Making 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


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 and wire in the air
Everything on fire everywhere
Punishment and crime

Black and white
It's keeping me up late every night
Thinking I can't wait, but I might
Everything in time

Gray gives way 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
Coming up close against your skin
Do you know I love your tattoo?
Your tattoo
Your tattoo

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Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock / folk rock musician active since 2003 from Brooklyn, known for his songs about geek culture. He is best known for such compositions as "Still Alive" and "Code Monkey", as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures.

Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast, on topics as diverse as vengeful nerds, self-loathing giant squid, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store. The Thing a Week project is now complete, and all songs can be streamed from his official website. Many of the songs on the site can be downloaded for free. The song "Code Monkey" became the theme song to the G4 television show Code Monkeys.

Coulton's song "Still Alive" has been featured in Valve Software's game Portal (and has become a hit among the gamers who finished the game) . He also made a recording of this song called the "J.C. Mix" which is exactly the same except he is singing rather than Ellen McLain as GLaDOS. "Still Alive" went on to be featured in the game Rock Band, as well as Skullcrusher Mountain and Re: Your Brains Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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