Tattoo Lyrics - Janis Ian

Her new name was tattooed to her wrist 

It was longer than the old one 

Sealed in the silence with a fist 

This night will be a cold one 

Centuries live in her eyes 

Destiny laughs over jack-booted thighs 

"Work makes us free" says the sign 

Nothing leaves here alive 

Tattoo 

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She steps out of line to the left 

And her father to the right 

One sides a cold, clean death 

The other is an endless night 

Gold from a grandmother's tooth 

Mountains of jewelry and toys 

Piled in the corners, mailed across the borders 

Presents for the girls and boys 

Presents for the girls and boys 

Tattoo 

And it gets darker every night 

Spread-eagled out among the stars, she says 

"Somewhere in this tunnel lives a light 

Still my beating heart 

I have never known a man 

What man will want me now? 

Am I still alive, somehow? 

If I can survive, somehow 

Tattooed" 

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Soldiers from the other side 

Liberated them at dawn 

Gave her water, gave her life 

She still had all her clothes on 

She lived until she died 

Empty as the autumn leaves that fly 

Surgeons took the mark 

But they could not take it far 

It was written on her heart 

Written on her empty heart 

Tattooed