[Verse 1]
Met you on a Tuesday
Pierced lip
Bad idea eyes
Said
"You look like trouble"
You said
"Guess that makes us alike" (hey!)
Shared fries in a parking lot
You dared me to steal that sign
Then dared me to trust you
I didn't even check the time
[Pre-Chorus]
Jumped in your car like a late-night prayer
Red flags waving in the summer air
I was sixteen kinds of bored and brave
You were every risk I craved
[Chorus]
Now I've got a tattoo of a name I erased
Crooked little scar where your letters were traced
Thought you were forever on the back of my wrist
Now it's just a punchline and a story I twist
We were so sure
So fast
Such a beautiful waste
Now it's just a tattoo of a name I erased
[Verse 2]
Your mom hated my boots
My dad hated your band
We swore we'd prove them all wrong
By doing nothing they planned (oh yeah)
You said
"Let's be legendary"
At that strip mall parlor light
Twenty bucks and a fake ID
Ink still wet when we picked a fight
[Pre-Chorus]
Shouting in the rain by the all-night store
You swore you'd leave
I said "Use the door"
Two weeks later you were someone else's phase
I was stuck with your last name
[Chorus]
Now I've got a tattoo of a name I erased
Little ghost shadow only seen in some angles and shapes
Thought you'd be my always every time that it bled
Now I roll my eyes at every word that we said
We were so loud
So proud
In each other's face
Now it's just a tattoo of a name I erased
[Bridge]
[Half-time
Drums drop
Tight vocal]
Years pass
I grow out my hair
Move towns
Learn how to care
'bout things like rent
Instead of texts you never sent
Run into you at the grocery store
You say
"You look happy
Are you still sore?"
I laugh
Hold up my faded wrist
Say
"Look
I'm fine
I fixed it"
[Call-and-Response]
(Female) "You were just a season on my skin"
(Male) "Guess I rubbed off
At least a little bit"
(Female) "We were dumb
But it was kind of great"
(Both) "Thank god mistakes don't stay that way" (woah)
[Chorus]
Now I've got a tattoo of a name I erased
Every wrong turn somehow led to this place
Turn my old scars into jokes with my friends
We drink to the mess and the means to the ends
We were so sure
So fast
Such a beautiful waste
Now it's just a tattoo of a name I erased
[Outro]
Yeah
We were wild
We were tragically staged
But I'm just fine with the name I erased