Downtown Tattoos

The girl’s got downtown tattoos

All up and down her arms

She’s got a head on her shoulders

Filled with other people’s dreams

And a brand new car she can’t drive

Old books on her selves

That she’s never gonna read

And a bucket list

With a hole in it

And she says—

I’m gonna go somewhere

Somewhere nice

Where I can get snowed in

Call me a cab for the airport, baby

I’ll find a plane with my name on it

I got ink on my arm

That some boys find charming

And a smile worth more

That a mile of unpaid bills

I want to look out a window

And see the sun

From another side of my life

Scrape the dirt off my beat up luggage

And maybe wind up somebody’s wife

I want to wake up in a city

With a name I can’t pronounce

Next to someone

Who looks like a friend

For once I want to know

What feels like a beginning

Instead of just another end

Maybe I’ll put a few new tattoos on my arm

Something that makes me think

With a little uptown ink