Marked for Life

And so we watch the sun come up

From the edge of the deep green sea

“What does your tattoo say?” asks a curious stranger. “Oh, it’s a line from a song by my favourite band The Cure, it has meaning to me,” I reply, slightly annoyed at the intrusion. Then I sigh realizing that this of course would happen after putting words on my back.

I always wanted a tattoo, but not necessarily an image but rather words. I love words. I love a great piece of writing. My search for the perfect combination of words to have inscribed forever into my skin ended when I realized who was responsible for the most beautiful words that I hear everyday. Robert Smith of The Cure. I listen to this band on a daily basis. They feature on every mix CD I have made over the years and they own rightful place on every playlist I’ve made on my Ipod. I just can’t get enough of his words, or rather, his lyrics. Being a massive music fan I decided a lyric would be more sentimental to me than a quote.

Most of The Cure’s lyrics have meaning to me and my life, but I found one in particular which was something when read by others would not give away too much private details, and the meaning it had to my life would still remain unknown to others.

Perhaps some people think it was a bad idea, but I don’t care what they think. Pfft. Whatever. Haha. I know that these two lines will always have meaning to my life and I definitely know that after all the years of adoration for The Cure, I will never get over them.

If you haven’t heard the song from which the lyric comes from, feel free to check out the link to a video of their performance of ‘From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea’ below.

http://youtu.be/YtgtC31Emec