"Tattoo" lyrics

[Golden AWe]

(Tattoo, tattoo)

I got Elvis on my elbow
and when I flex Elvis talks
I got hula girls on the back of my leg
and she hula's when I walk

Speak in cherry red
Screaming lectric green
Purple mountain's majesty really talk to me
Talk to me babe

Swapmeet Sally
Trampstamp Cat
Mousewife to Momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo
tattoo-tattoo

(Tattoo, tattoo)
Show me your dragon magic
(Tattoo, tattoo)
So autobiographic!

Best believe that need will work you
Best deceive these true colours that follow one of your false virtues

Here's a secret to make you think
Why is the crazy stuff we never said poetry in ink
Speak in day-glow red
Explodo paint
Purple mountain's majesty tell me you, I'll show you me

Swap meet Sally
Trampstamp Cat
Mousewife to Momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo, tattoo-tattoo

Woo!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Sexy dragon magic
(Tattoo, tattoo)
So very autobiographic!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Got a hold on me
(Tattoo, tattoo)
You put a spell on meeeee!

(Dave scat solo)
overlapping into
(major old school guitar bad-assary)

Uncle Danny had a gold tattoo
He fought for the unions
(Some of us still do)
On my shoulder is a number of the Chapter he was in
That number is forever like the struggle here to win

Everybody!
Swap meet Sally
Trampstamp Cat
Mousewife to Momshell in the time it took to get that new tattoo, tattoo-tattoo
Tattoo
ta..too!

(Tattoo, tattoo)
Sexy dragon magic
(Tattoo, tattoo)
So very autobiographic!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
You got a hold on me
(Tattoo, tattoo)
You put a spell on me
(Tattoo, tattoo)
I'm in love with you
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Show me, show me your
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Look at me, look at you!
(Tattoo, tattoo)
Whoa!

Like the whole song...I was a little surprised and astonished first..."what is happening here"...

Now I think I've got it. He's singing about the his new chance with Van Halen...

"show me your dragon magic" and "You put a spell on meeeee!", it sounds a bit gay at first, but if you think of it as a spell to breathe life into Van Halen again, to summon the devil and the good out of all that is magical and grate in the classic Van Halen, it's about to become true again!

PLUS all these impressions about "mousewife to momshell" or bombshell, they are about the past years of him solo...and Van Hagar...that it's returing into a life...where TATTOO is the symbol of the new Van Halen...

FOOKIN' ACE!!!

[Full Bug]

I love how you can tell Dave lyrics a mile away, cannot wait to hear the whole song....

[JJtheVagPounder]

I think it's "Best believe that needle hurt you"

[kwame k]

When I first read your analysis I thought you were stoned but after thinking aboot it.....I got stoned and it makes perfect sense

[lesfunk]

Are you sure it isn't "Housewife to Bombshell"?

[diamondsgirl]

Are you sure it isn't "Housewife to Bombshell"?

pretty sure it is...makes sense.

[Golden AWe]

Hahah...you know what...to find the lyrics, I paid my first visit to the Links, in four to five years or so...but I don't care!!! I'm so happy, I have new Van Halen in my stereo!!! FUCK OFF ROTH HATERS!!!

[diamondsgirl]

Very Rothen lyrics.

[Golden AWe]

Are you sure it isn't "Housewife to Bombshell"?

Nope, I think it's "Mousewif to momshell", it seems like a used expression: http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/...ing-a-thinner/

[lesfunk]

Wow, You and Dave are fucking Brilliant!
never heard that phrase in my life

[kwame k]

Nope, I think it's "Mousewif to momshell", it seems like a used expression: http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/...ing-a-thinner/

Wow....first bit of trivia right there, bro!

[lesfunk]

One more lyric that sammy could never have understood let alone written

[kwame k]

Ha! Preach the Gospel!!!!!!!!

If hating the Red Cocker is wrong.....I don't wanna be right!

[diamondsgirl]

well, cool then. Dave grabs his lyrics from everywhere. And he says that he reads everything he can get his hands on. Clearly. LOL. Thanks AW.

[vanshipman]

Dave lyrics are always interesting and clever. I cant wait to hear what he has for us on the new album...I love Tattoo and cant wait for the tour and the record. What a great year for us VH fans!!! From famine to feast I say!!!