00:12He was seventeen when the headlights crossed
00:16And a twisted guardrail counted the cost
00:20His best friend gone on a rain soap road
00:23Left him carrying half of a teenage soap
00:26Three days later in a backroom chair
00:30He put one black feather on his arm right there
00:33His buddies and issues underneath the quill
00:37And the words Forever Seventeen
00:41And the ink stayed still
00:56Twenty-three his old man died He never shed a tear
01:00Just swallowed it inside But that night he woke with a burning arm
01:06And a second black feather had somehow formed
01:09He blamed the whiskey, blamed the light But he wasn't there when he went to sleep that night
01:16No needle marks, no blood, no scar Just another piece of darkness growing down his arm
01:23The tattoo changed when his whole world broke Black he moved like a trail of smoke
01:30Every goodbye, every slam shut door Left something on his skin that wasn't there before
01:36A feathering name, a crooked black line Like something underneath was keeping time
01:43Thirty-five years of hurt he couldn't kill And every time his heart broke
01:48The tattoo wouldn't stay still
02:04At thirty-one his marriage came apart The feather grew with thorns wrapped around his heart
02:11At thirty-nine when his brother passed away A raven appeared before the break of day
02:17At forty-six he lost his mom A little black clock showed up on his palm
02:24The hands were frozen to seventeen The same damn time as that wreck when he was seventeen
02:31Doctors called it impossible Tattoo men called him a liar
02:38But every tragedy fanatic Like gasoline feeds fire
02:45The tattoo changed when his whole world broke Black he moved like a trail of smoke
02:51Every goodbye, every slam shut door Left something on his skin that wasn't there before
02:58A feathering name, a crooked black line Like something underneath was keeping time
03:05Thirty-five years of hurt he couldn't kill And every time his heart broke
03:10The tattoo wouldn't stay still
03:19Then fifty-two came quietly No funeral, no wreck, no tragedy
03:25Just an old cardboard box he hadn't opened in years Full of high school pictures and seventeen year old tears
03:33There was a letter from the friend he lost Folded underneath an old wooden cross
03:39Written two weeks before that final ride If anything happens, brother
03:45Promise me you'll live your life
03:50You'll live your life
04:15Enough Seven lesions to destroy
04:16Good teammate
04:16If anything else
04:21You'll be in a doubt
04:21Good watching
04:21You'll be in aко-dream
04:21You
