New Tattoo - Saving Abel

Sometime in the summer of '96

I was off on a road trip

A couple hundred bucks and a case of beer

Outside Panama City limits is where it all begins

2:00 A.M., I saw hazard lights

Appeared to be a dame distressed in the night

She was 5'6″ and, damn, she was built

I slammed on the brakes and got sideways and told her to get in

She said, «Where you headed, to the city?»

I said, «Yeah!

I’m gonna have some fun»

She tossed her hair back in confidence

And said, «Mind if I come?»

Two days later, we ain’t left the room

Did all in there that we could think to do

I could see she was restless, so we hit the town

Ended up at a place where the windows read:

«Tattoos, piercings, belly rings here»

«Tattoos, piercings, belly rings here»

Into the back she went and disappeared

Reappeared an hour late cheesing ear to ear

I thought, «Hell, I need to try and get back there»

When she unzipped her pants and said, «Looky here

I got a brand new tattoo

All the colors in it remind me of you

I got a brand new tattoo

All the colors in it remind me of you

The blue is for the bruise that you left in my heart

And the red is for the color we’re 'bout to paint this town

Ooh, I gotta new tattoo"

One week passed;

woke up a day late for work

I found my goodtime gone and she took my shirt

Drove by all the places that we had been

There was one where the windows read:

«Tattoos, piercings, belly rings here»

«Tattoos, piercings, belly rings here»

Into the back I went and disappeared

Reappeared an hour later cheesing ear to ear

I got a brand new tattoo

All the colors in it remind me of you

I got a brand new tattoo

All the colors in it remind me of you

The blue is for the bruise that you left in my heart

And the red is for the color we’re 'bout to paint this town

Oooh I gotta new tattoo

And I cannot forget

That smile when she said

I got a brand new tattoo

All the colors in it remind me of you

I got a brand new tattoo

All the colors in it remind me of you

The blue is for the bruise that you left in my heart

And the red is for the color we’re 'bout to paint this town

Oooh I gotta new tattoo

New tattoo!

(I got a brand new tattoo

And all the colors in it remind me of you)

New tattoo!

(«Tattoos, piercings, belly rings here»)

New tattoo

(«Tattoos, piercings, belly rings here»)