What do you think Girl with the Tattoo means?

Miguel: Girl with the Tattoo Meaning

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Girl with the Tattoo Lyrics

Those innocent eyes...(eyes)
That smile on your face makes it easy to trust you...
If they only knew...The girl with the tattoo, like I do...
Doing what you're doing just to get to where you're going yeah I it see baby...
Just don't lose...

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    #1 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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     Jan 27th 2013 !⃝

    A girl he grew up with enters a domestic violence relationship and wants to get out of it and persue her dreams but didn't make it out..the tattoo to me are her wounds from the abuse..innocent eyes and smile to me means that she was a sweet person.. if they only knew you like he does to me means the abuser doesn't see her for her he sees fear...doing what you doing to get to where your going means she wants to go school to do better in life..I use to know her probably means she's not that same person he use to know or maybe she didn't make it out the relationship..R.I.P TO ALL THOSE WHO DIDNT MAKE IT OUT OF THERE DV RELATIONSHIPS
    GIRLS WITH THE TATTOOS

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    anonymous
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     May 5th 2020 !⃝

    i think its talking about knowing a person not based on the outward appearance but at the heart. obviously the person is receiving backlash for looking a certain way, but another (narrator, whomever you interpret them to be) knows who they really are and loves them for it.
    however, the person is doing something to get through a hard time or reach a goal, which the narrator can see is changing them and their character ("doin what you doin/just to get where you goin...just don't lose yourself along the way, no). Sadly the person does lose themselves, which is why at the end he says "oh yea, i knew the girl with the tattoo/i used to know". The narrator cannot see that innocent, trustworthy, side of the person anymore, she has changed.

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    anonymous
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     Jan 23rd 2013 !⃝

    Miguel is singing about a stripper. It's pretty obvious. "Doing what you're doing just to get to where you're going yea I see it baby just don't lose yourself along the way" she's probably a stripper who is going to school, or working to take care of her kids, but at her core she's still a good girl, and he's concerned she will lose that and get sucked into the lifestyle.

  4. anonymous
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     May 4th 2021 !⃝

    He fell for someone but didn't really know her like he thought he did or his feelings would have never changed and when the going got tough, she changed like all of us do naturally but instead of sticking around and knowing the saying leapords don't change their spots, meaning a good woman is always a good woman,and walk through the rain with her,he lost faith and took the easy way out instead of working shit out like adults.
    You're welcome.

  5. anonymous
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     Nov 29th 2019 !⃝

    i think that it’s about knowing a girl in a deeper level while others didn’t know this side of her. they had a deeper bond. but things got rough and they did not have anymore contact.

  6. anonymous
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     Jun 27th 2018 !⃝

    I feel like this is a tribute to the crazy Drake Fan that got the tattoo on her forehead of his name. He's saying he used to know her as in he knows many women who would do anything for attention, even irreversible damage.

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  7. debbdiva
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     Aug 31st 2012 !⃝

    my interpretation is a bit bizzare but i believe when the girl was born she was born with a birthmark across her back which resembles a tatto she was raised in an unstable house was sexually assulted by her mothers numerous boyfriends she later ran away from her house hold with her teenage lover who only understood her she became a stripper at a strip club next to their motel and her stage name was the girl with the tatoo

  8. anonymous
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     Jun 6th 2012 !⃝

    Oh my God, if u listen carefully he is talking about a stripper, he said it himself, one part of song says doing what u doing just to get to where u going and another part says no one would have the shit to do what u doing it, in his eyes he see her and knows who she hiding but he saying I understand

  9. anonymous
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     Jun 5th 2012 !⃝

    to me the song means that he knew this innocent girl that had a tattoo, but since she had a tattoo people took her the wrong way and they didnt accept her like she wanted to be accepted.But she's actually a very nice gir whos going to the right place; and miguel is trying to explain that to everyone.

  10. anonymous
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     Mar 9th 2012 !⃝

    Someone he once knew was lost in herself and he knew what she was going through and he understood he just didnt want her to forget who she was in the process but in the end she turned into the girl he knew not the girl he knows she lost herself in the process the girl with the tatoo he use to know

  11. anonymous
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     Oct 16th 2011 !⃝

    That he once knew this girl but she has changed to become someone that she is not.


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