Acoustic Sketchbook - Tattoos Lyrics

Always wanted, never brave enough
Not sure enough of what she had to say
Always envied, the naked confidence
The painted evidence, a heart put on display

Little did she know even way back then
Even though she couldn't brave the artist's pen
She wore her tattoos on her soul

How she wanted, to belong here
To buy allegiance with colours on her skin
To mark her destiny, enduring ecstasy
Pain of remembrance never wearing thin

Little did she know that deep within
Rubbing dirt into wounds beneath her skin
Was forming tattoos on her soul

If she knew that, if she could only see
Every scar she bears is there for all to read
There's no need for, the artists elegance
Her life is drawn, in colours of primal need

Little did she know that deep within
All the colours of her life were soaking in
Defining tattoos on her soul