Tattoo of the Sun (2017 Version)

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Stephan Jenkins] I believe everything you say 'Cause you're not frightened The way I've been so So I follow you Just in case you lose your way, yeah So glad you let me stay around The chain-linked fence you climbed To make forbidden lakes our own Yours and mine And with ease of the seagulls We cut the engines and we cruise high In the summer sky [Interlude: Stephan Jenkins] Now I could speak to everything [Verse 2: Stephan Jenkins] But there's no room for my voice When sweet feedback Is jumping through the hoop of your ear Ring! There goes the phone And then you're off again On what the caller brings you So when I trashed myself at the bar Confused for nothing thinking you'd be there I'm so embarrassed 'cause it's you Who comes to take care of me Shambling home again with you in lead And it's not the way I want to go [Bridge: Stephan Jenkins] AI'm mad at you, and I'm mad at me Talking endlessly, not a kind word to say 'Til your amber beads of wisdom come And I want to write it down Just the way you said it, oh no So I could keep it always, always [Break] [Verse 3: Stephan Jenkins] I can't forget the smell Of summer trees at midnight Bending backwards to please the wind You touch the tattoo of the sun On a warm belly that once carried a baby for a while Then let that crackled leather jacket 'round you fold Red-faced saints monogrammed in gold And in this beauty, I would not go any further 'Cause I suddenly remembered We can't live this way forever You put your hands on the tattoo of the sun Tried to hold on to a moment that is gone Did you wonder when the bumbling used to care? Was it ever there? Was it ever there? [Chorus: Stephan Jenkins] Idle daylight, wooh Never caught you in a lie Not until now, I feel somehow I've felt the passing of these days gone by [Outro: Stephan Jenkins] What will you do when the feeling that you have is through? I need to know 'cause I'll never stop hanging on to you And it's times like this that I dread When there's everything to say And nothing left To be said, to be said It makes me sad