(B. Walkenhorst) Tattoo tattoo Some things fade some never do Like the names of me and you In my skin indigo blue Tattoo tattoo Waving boys in navy blue Whalers sailing home to you Scratched in scrimshaw tusk and tooth Tattoo tattoo Some things fade some never do These lines of love to you Tattoo tattoo The verse of life is blank I think We fill in in invisible ink It comes to sight, it surfaces When held up to the light of love Tattoo tattoo Carney girls in summer suits Local boys in leather boots Diagrams of derring-do Tattoo tattoo Tattoo tattoo Some things fade some never do Like these lines of love to you Tattoo tattoo Like the names of me and you In my skin indigo blue Tattoo tattoo
