Like a Tattoo by Sade

Artist: Sade

Genre: Pop

Length: 3:38

The final night of Sade’s 1993 Love Deluxe World Tour, Sade explained to her audience that “Like A Tattoo” was a true story based on the accounts of a stranger Sade met years ago on an evening at a New York City bar: A long time ago, I met a man in a bar in New York. He told me his story. This is his song. It’s about war and what he had to go through. The song’s grave tone reflects his guilt and shame over committing a war crime. Over the course of the song, we learn that he shot and kille...

Like a Tattoo lyrics

He told me sweet lies of sweet loves
Heavy with the burden of the truth
And he spoke of his dreams, broken by the burden
Broken by the burden of his youth
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"14 years", he said
"I couldn't look into the sun"
She saw him laying at the end of my gun
Hungry for life
And thirsty for the distant river
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I remember his hands
And the way the mountains looked
The light shot diamonds from his eyes
Hungry for life
And thirsty for the distant river
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Like the scar of age
Written all over my face
The war is still raging inside of me
I still feel the chill
As I reveal my shame to you
I wear it like a tattoo
I wear it like a tattoo
I wear it like a tattoo

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