(B. Walkenhorst)

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Some things fade some never do

Like the names of me and you

In my skin indigo blue

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Waving boys in navy blue

Whalers sailing home to you

Scratched in scrimshaw tusk and tooth

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Some things fade some never do

These lines of love to you

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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

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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