///*****/// [Intro] A mirror in a cheap hotel And a man who does not flinch [Verse 1] There is one above my eyebrow From a bottle in Belfast And one across my knuckle From a door I should have passed There is one they cannot see at all From a February night When I sat down with the engine on And I sat there till the light And I did not do the thing And I do not know quite why Maybe just the radio Or the stubbornness to try [Pre-Chorus] And I used to hide the whole of it Under long sleeves and a laugh Like a man ashamed of history Like a house ashamed of glass [Chorus] Now every scar is a souvenir From a country I got out of Every scar is a souvenir And I earned every rough one I am not proud of how I got them And I would not go back there But I am not going to hide them And I am not going to care Every scar a souvenir [Verse 2] There is a woman who has seen them And she did not look away And she traced the one on Tuesday And she asked me what I'd say And I told her the whole ugly And she did not leave the bed She just put her forehead on my chest And she did not say a word instead And I have never in my life Been so entirely undone As by a person not recoiling From the worst of what I've done [Pre-Chorus] So I stopped apologising For the shape that I came in Some of us are built in workshops And the seams are going to show [Chorus] Now every scar is a souvenir From a country I got out of Every scar is a souvenir And I earned every rough one I am not proud of how I got them And I would not go back there But I am not going to hide them And I am not going to care Every scar a souvenir [Verse 3] There is a kid who works the loading dock And he has got that look on him The one that says he's drowning And that nobody has swum And I do not have a speech for him And he would not hear it if I did So I just told him about Belfast And the door and what I did And he did not say a thing at all But he came back Wednesday too And sometimes that is all it is Somebody in the room with you [Pre-Chorus] So wear the whole of it out loud And let the daylight in Nothing that ever healed you Started with pretending [Bridge] They do not fade and they do not vanish And they do not make you weak They are the receipts of every night You did not let it beat And they are proof you were the one Who is still here on his feet [Guitar Solo] [Final Chorus] Every scar is a souvenir From a country I got out of Every scar is a souvenir And I earned every rough one I am not proud of how I got them And I would not go back there But I am standing in the daylight And I am standing in it bare Every scar a souvenir [Coda] So here is to the crooked And the badly put together Here is to the ones who made it Through the very worst of weather Roll the sleeve up in the summer Let them look and let them stare Every mark upon you Says you are still there [Outro] A mirror in a cheap hotel And a man who does not flinch And a scar above his eyebrow And a life he did not miss
