Tell Tale Signs - Frank Turner

God damn it, Amy!

We’re not kids any more

You can’t just keep waltzing out of my life

Leaving clothes on my bedroom floor

Like nothing really matters

Like pain doesn’t hurt

You should mean more to me by now

Than just heartbreak and a short skirt

You kind of remind me of scars on my arms

That I made, when I was a kid

With a disassembled disposable razor

I stole from my dad

When I thought that suffering was something

Profound that weighed down on wise heads

Not just something to be avoided

Something normal people dread

Well God damn it, Amy!

Well of course I’ve changed!

With all the things that I’ve done and the places I’ve been

I’d be a machine if I’d stayed the same

You’re still back where we started

You haven’t changed at all

Yeah you’re still trying to live like a kid

Like you could always have it all

You know you kind of remind me of scars on my arms

That I hid as best I could

That I covered with ink, but in the right kind of light

They still bleed through

Showing that there are some things that I just cannot change

No matter what I do

The tell tale signs of being used

Of being trapped inside of you

You’re a beautiful butterfly

Burned with a branding iron

Onto my outside, into my insides

Is a simple sign

To show off your ownership

Burned into my naked skin

Onto my outside, into my insides

It’s not even love anymore!

It’s just a claim upon my soul

It stains my skin, yeah, and it’s on my breath

And I’m ashamed to get undressed

In front of strangers, in case they see

The tell tale signs that you have left all over me

God damn it, Amy!

You’ll always remind me of scars on my arms

That I know will never fade

And it’s not like it’s something I think about each

And every day

I just occasionally catch myself scratching at them

As if they’d ever go away

But these tell tale signs are here to stay

And in the end, you know, that’s OK

Because you will always be a part

Of my patched up, patchwork, taped up tape deck heart