Me and my brother
were talking to each other
About what makes a man a man
Was it brain or brawn
or the month you were born
We just couldn't understand
Our old man didn't like
our appearance,
said that only women wear
long hair
So me and my brother borrowed
money from mother,
we knew what we had to do
We went downstairs
past the barber and gymnasium
We got our arms tattooed
Welcome to my life tattooed
I'm a man now thanks to you
I expect I'll regret you
But the skin graft man won't get you
To be there when I die
My dad beat me, cos mine said mother
My mother actually liked it
and beat my brother
Cos his tattoo was of a lady in the nude
And my mother thought
that was extremely rude
That rhyme had never been
used before at that time.
Welcome to my life, Tattoo.
We've a long time together,
me and you.
I expect I'll regret you,
but the skin graft man won't get you.
You'll be there when I die, Tattoo.
Now I'm older,
I'm tattooed all over,
my wife is tattooed too
Rooty tooty too, rooty tooty too too,
rooty tooty too, tattooed too
Bit like the end in a tummy this,
isn't it?
To you
I've always had difficulty,
you know, finishing things really,
you know, I mean
I got to the end of Tommy
and I didn't know what to do with Tommy,
he'd been through all this terrible stuff
and, you know,
we all really identified with him
and, God,
what's he going to do
at the end of the story?
And I just didn't know what to do,
I sent him up this mountain. Go!
Up up you go.
At the end of Quadrifina,
this poor screwed up little kid,
you know, he can't get the girl,
he crashes his scooter.
You know, the guy he thinks is a great guy ends up, he's a
bellhop, you know, it's just,
and he goes to the sea, and it's flat.
No, nothing,
and it smells a bit funny, too.
In the distance,
there's somebody going,
So he gets a boat and he goes out
and he gets on the rock and then,
gets on the rock
and well then it's the end!
It kind of happens like that at the end of Tattoo,
you know, you get to the end
and you're thinking,
my wife is tattooed too
and yes, well a Rudy too,
toodle toodle.
I'm going to do collings,
give me the collings. time.