David Wilcox - This Tattoo

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David Wilcox - This Tattoo

With this tattoo you make a promise of who you are and what you think, this will be your binding contract written down in blood and ink.
I hear that. It sounds pretty deep, and tattoos are deep. When you get a tattoo you seal yourself in the mindset of the tattoo. I like how he lays this out right at the beginning.

She had a life to live, the day she left home
She vowed no surrender, No company drone
She wrote it down in crimson, she wrote it down in black
She wrote it down so deep, she's never gonna take it back
Ah, yes. The day she left home she decided that her life was going to be different. She decided that she was never going to be a company drone. She got a tattoo to write down in permanent ink that she had made this decision.

Wow, what an age. When you think you know everything you want, you think you can have everything you want, and you haven't gotten into the whole 'deserving' it era as much as still in the adventurous earning it. Even if you did work somewhere it was only a temporary thing before you hitch hiked to Colorado or something.

Make your clear and solemn vow before the age of compromise
Write it here and write it now always right before your eyes.

Before the age of compromise! What could that age be? When does the age of compromise begin? Is it when you stop caring? Or when you stop caring about yourself? What is the age of compromise? How can I know what it means by feeling but not by date? Is the age of compromise a variable?