Anti-Manual for a Tattoo
Its not my best, just something I came up with after listening to Kimya Dawson for a while.
So I tattooed the instructions up my ass
Don’t dare to put me in a sack!
Burn me with candles and tell everyone
She just never lived to die
She just never lived to die!
Ah but
The process of living is all about dying
And the process of crying is all about laughing
And the process of loving is all about leaving
And the process of being is all about flirting
With candles and danger and stuffed little penguins
And smaller big asses and needles and weddings
And the divorce and the drinking and the kiddos and the banging
And the bus stop that never arrived
The ship that just never sank
So I tattooed the instructions up my heart
Don’t ever dare open up the lock to the candies
And strangers and lovers and captains and everyone below
The whirlwind of danger signing the anthem of lost rock
You say darling you are a coward I say no I’m rock n’ roll
You say lover you are smoker I say no I am the smoke
You say I fool all of us, I say I’m not the one who fought.
And the process of living is all about dying
And the process of being is all about deceiving
The process of mourning is all about cheering
The kids in the back of the sack and the lack of tracks
That just were never built to be road and hitchhiked in the age of our own
So I tattooed the up my thumb
Don’t ever stop me burning off
Don’t ever open up the door
Don’t ever turn me on and off
So I tattooed up your liver
I’m living for leaving and leaving the living
And held you the trigger
And told you my lover
And told you my dearest
I’m not the one to grow
I’m not the one to stop
I'm not one to leave you alone in the earth of the dying
So I tangled my hair in your finger
and raised you the middle to give me the sign of peace
to give me the sign of ease
Please kiss me in the middle of all this
You ate the trigger and I puked while I sang "the beer"
So I tattooed the instructions up my ass
Don’t dare to put me in a sack!
Burn me with candles and tell everyone
She just never lived to die
She just never lived to die!
So I tattooed the instructions up our palms
Don't dare tattoo us apart
burn me with candies and tell every lad
She just never lived to die!
They just never were ones to die!
So I tattooed the instructions up my ass
Don’t dare to put me in a sack!
Burn me with candles and tell everyone
She just never lived to die
She just never lived to die!
Ah but
The process of living is all about dying
And the process of crying is all about laughing
And the process of loving is all about leaving
And the process of being is all about flirting
With candles and danger and stuffed little penguins
And smaller big asses and needles and weddings
And the divorce and the drinking and the kiddos and the banging
And the bus stop that never arrived
The ship that just never sank
So I tattooed the instructions up my heart
Don’t ever dare open up the lock to the candies
And strangers and lovers and captains and everyone below
The whirlwind of danger signing the anthem of lost rock
You say darling you are a coward I say no I’m rock n’ roll
You say lover you are smoker I say no I am the smoke
You say I fool all of us, I say I’m not the one who fought.
And the process of living is all about dying
And the process of being is all about deceiving
The process of mourning is all about cheering
The kids in the back of the sack and the lack of tracks
That just were never built to be road and hitchhiked in the age of our own
So I tattooed the up my thumb
Don’t ever stop me burning off
Don’t ever open up the door
Don’t ever turn me on and off
So I tattooed up your liver
I’m living for leaving and leaving the living
And held you the trigger
And told you my lover
And told you my dearest
I’m not the one to grow
I’m not the one to stop
I'm not one to leave you alone in the earth of the dying
So I tangled my hair in your finger
and raised you the middle to give me the sign of peace
to give me the sign of ease
Please kiss me in the middle of all this
You ate the trigger and I puked while I sang "the beer"
So I tattooed the instructions up my ass
Don’t dare to put me in a sack!
Burn me with candles and tell everyone
She just never lived to die
She just never lived to die!
So I tattooed the instructions up our palms
Don't dare tattoo us apart
burn me with candies and tell every lad
She just never lived to die!
They just never were ones to die!