[Verse 1]
I wrote NM on my wrist to hide the nihilism that lived inside
Cause while I needed a reminder to get out of my head
The marking caused stress instead
There was still concern that if they learned of the ink I had written
I'd have earned being forbidden
That's why I connected it to one line
So people wouldn't know the meaning behind
Yet as I looked at that line I began to find
That it did more than just remind my obsessive mind
That things I stress about are needed to survive
It also told me that I'm still alive
My heart's still beating I am here
But time is fleeting and if I'm sincere
I gotta take life one day at a time
I don't look to the future I look to the line
[Chorus]
They say you should get it tattooed
That's permanent I'm day by day dude
If this ink sinks into my skin, I will begin to feel this within
They say you should get it tattooed
That's permanent I'm day by day dude
If this ink sinks into my skin, I will begin to feel this within
[Verse 2]
My focus is on today
Yes those markings will fade away
But that's okay I'll do it again
Just pick up a marker pick up a pen
And maybe in the end this will be more
Than all the hopes I had before
This time the idea will absorb
Become the reason I'm winning awards
Nothing is holding me back like it was
I feel like I could open any door because
I don't care who's behind it, don't care if they judge
Look at that line reminded I gotta budge
So easy to say I don't care but now I'm aware
And I dare myself to scare myself
Because after I face my fears
I see my heart's still beating I'm still here
[Chorus]
They say you should get it tattooed
That's permanent I'm day by day dude
If this ink sinks into my skin, I will begin to feel this within
They say you should get it tattooed
That's permanent I'm day by day dude
If this ink sinks into my skin, I will begin to feel this within
[Verse 3]
Each day is a new day
That's why each time I wake
An NM I must make
I'm ready to take this thought process
And make it more than an idea I obsess with
Cause there's no reason to stress now that this
Is more than just thinking
The ink is really sinking
I don't need to think about the future just the present time
Each time I get anxious I look to the line
It's part of me, it's becoming me
Don't need to get it permanently though
Could always write it again tomorrow
[Chorus]
They say you should get it tattooed
That's permanent I'm day by day dude
If this ink sinks into my skin, I will begin to feel this within
They say you should get it tattooed
That's permanent I'm day by day dude
If this ink sinks into my skin, I will begin to feel this within
If this ink sinks into my skin
If this ink sinks into my skin
If this ink sinks into my skin
I will begin to feel this within