Mike Patton first touched on this subject on Tomahawk’s previous album, ‘Oddfellows,” on the song, “Waratorium,” with the lyric, “Got memory, don’t need a tattoo.”
Faces down in the dirty lust
In the testicles of the country dust
While the workers work
And they work and they work
Watchin' them honeys twerk
While the hobos jerk
Tattoo, tattoo
Keep your ink away from me
Tattoo
Skin clean like a newborn baby
Tattoo, tattoo
Got no bullshit memories
[?] [1:32]
Whiskey
I don't need a document
Of all the shit I've done or where I went
To the list of the family jewels
No reminder of the rules
Got no beautiful tattoo
Impossible to look like you
I'll never look as cool as you
Never look like you
Keep your ink away from me
Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo
Got no bullshit memories
Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo
Skin clean like a newborn baby
Tattoo, tattoo, tattoo, tattoo
Home of the fools, go wherever it’s strained
Tattoo, tattoo
Tattoo Zero was written by John Stanier & Mike Patton & Trevor Dunn & Duane Denison.
Tattoo Zero was produced by Tomahawk & Paul Allen.
Tomahawk released Tattoo Zero on Fri Mar 26 2021.