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That Weekend (Blue Tattoo)

from Happy Now? by Derek Brink

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This is one of the ones written "for" this project. Which means that somewhere over the past two years I wrote it and muttered "yeah, that'll go on the album, I guess" to myself. It still feels "new" to me even though I first demoed it two years ago for my own listening.

The tone of the song comes a little bit from listening to the soundtrack for the movie "Juliet Naked" which is based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. I liked the book and the movie a lot...so I also bought the soundtrack. It's good. Despite the involvement of some people who've since been rightly "Me Tooed."

The "Blue Tattoo" phrasing is important to me, by the way. I was in a band named Blue Tattoo for several years. Several of my BEST years, in fact. I miss that band. A lot... The band was named after a song on the "Hard Core Logo" soundtrack. Lotta soundtracks involved in this song...

The solo is, of course, basically just "Heroes" by David Bowie, with a twist or two to keep me from getting sued by a dead man.

The "story" in the song is what it is...it's about a Friday night that turned into a Sunday morning. But then on Monday, everything was back to normal again. So it goes...

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You
with your blue tattoo.
An inside joke for a few
of the people you keep close.
I
sometimes still want to cry
when I think about that night
that you asked me where it should go.

I’ll have to forgive me for the whiskey
that I let go straight to my head.
It was wasted. Barely tasted.
Yet I never will forget…

When Friday night
turned into Sunday morning
with no forewarning,
I fought the longing to sleep.
The smell of your cigarette
and your bourbon breath
were all I wanted to dream.

What a weekend.
What a best friend.
I didn’t think I could get enough.
Then on Monday
with no foreplay
I woke up…

You
with another blue tattoo.
And I have no excuse
for missing out on it.
We
just weren’t meant to be.
I’m not sure if it was you or me,
but something just didn’t fit.

I’ll have to forgive me for the memory
but I go back to it a lot.
It’s bittersweet and incomplete.
But it’s the very best I’ve got.

When Friday night
turned into Sunday morning
with no forewarning,
I fought the longing to sleep.
The smell of your cigarette
and your bourbon breath
were all I wanted to dream.

What a weekend.
What a best friend.
I didn’t think I could get enough.
Then on Monday
with no foreplay
I woke up…

You
with your blue tattoo...

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from Happy Now?, released May 29, 2021

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