Tattoo-Janis Ian

[00:00.86]Tattoo - Janis Ian [00:13.04]Her new name was tattooed to her wrist [00:16.40]It was longer than the old one [00:20.40] [00:22.83]Sealed in the silence with a fist [00:26.39]This night will be a cold one [00:30.26] [00:32.70]Centuries live in her eyes [00:37.62]Destiny laughs over jack-booted thighs [00:42.95]‘Work makes us free’ says the sign [00:45.94]Nothing leaves here alive [00:51.10] [00:56.16]Tattoo [00:59.78] [01:09.22]She steps out of line to the left [01:12.96]And her father to the right [01:17.68] [01:19.42]One sides a cold, clean death [01:23.06]The other is an endless night [01:28.55] [01:29.29]Gold from a grandmother’s tooth [01:33.16] [01:34.10]Mountains of jewelry and toys [01:38.09] [01:38.97]Piled in the corners, mailed across the borders [01:43.81]Presents for the girls and boys [01:48.80]Presents for the girls and boys [01:50.51] [01:52.43]Tattoo [01:55.30] [02:06.68]And it gets darker every night [02:10.13] [02:11.87]Spread-eagled out among the stars, she says [02:16.60]“Somewhere in this tunnel lives a light [02:20.60]Still my beating heart [02:26.80]I have never known a man [02:30.43] [02:31.61]What man will want me now? [02:34.11] [02:36.79]Am I still alive, somehow? [02:41.66]If I can survive, somehow [02:46.46]Tattooed” [02:53.20] [03:10.43]Soldiers from the other side [03:13.37]Liberated them at dawn [03:18.11] [03:20.42]Gave her water, gave her life [03:23.23]She still had all her clothes on [03:28.22] [03:29.28]She lived until she died [03:34.65]Empty as the autumn leaves that fly [03:39.45]Surgeons took the mark [03:41.70]But they could not take it far [03:44.07]It was written on her heart [03:48.19] [03:49.19]Written on her empty heart [03:52.81]Tattooed [03:56.87]