Teardrop Tattoo Lyrics - M. Craft

We were dark eyed children in a neon world 

Where men hid in the shadows of silhouetted girls 

You were way too beautiful as beautiful as anything 

Those ugly King's Cross streets have ever seen and seventeen 

It happened on the corner where you used to stand 

Dealers and policemen, money changing hands 

You didn't have to see a thing, you could have disappeared 

Into a store and hid behind a magazine but you were seen 

And he came for your life in the rain, in the night 

All he ever cried over you was a teardrop tattoo 

They'd called you to an inquest, to stand and testify 

Against the law-enforcers dealing on the sly 

You never made the hearing, they found a man who with his hands 

Had killed before and now would kill again and he killed again