Tinpan Orange Tattoo On Her Wrist song lyrics

One, two, three, four

I kiss the ground, I kick the dirt, I call a spade a spade

I collect all the feathers in my cap and all the mistakes I've made

I'm older now, this business is strange, I've sung a million songs

About the ones that I have loved and all that I've done wrong

Like a tattoo on your wrist

Like a storm upon a cliff

We carve ourselves like monuments with ink, with tears, with fists

With ink, with tears, with fists

Well, some things make a fortune

Some things take it away

But you only have what you can count in your hand at the end of every day

Sometimes we don't know the difference between a sail and a stone

One's gonna leave you at the bottom of the sea and the other's gonna take you home

Like a tattoo on your wrist

Like a storm upon a cliff

We carve ourselves like monuments with ink, with tears, with fists

With ink, with tears, with fists

We build it up, we build it up, we build it up and then

We tear it down, we tear it down, so we can start again

We build it up, we build it up, we build it up and then

We smash it down, we smash it down, so we can start again

Like a tattoo on your wrist

Like a storm upon a cliff

We carve ourselves like monuments with ink, with tears, with fists

With ink, with tears, with fists