"Tattoo Masterpiece" by Question Beggar—AWFICIAL VIDEO
Channel: Question Beggar
Date: 2020-01-14

Produced, written and performed by Question Beggar. Kicking off the new year with a new single, QB offers singersongwritery insight into the eternal struggle between lovers: to tattoo or not to tattoo. Bonus points if you caught all the vonHummer easter eggs. Single drops Jan. 17 wherever music streameth. 

"Tattoo Masterpiece"
(Kent)
I see a monkey with bat wings,
holding a flaming skull
over a blood red tarantula,
storming up out of a hole,
torn open by skeleton fingers,
in the side of your neck.
Did you tell the tattoo artist,
“This will help me connect”?
And it looks so fine, your tattoo masterpiece.
So fine, so scary, so fine.
Makes me feel so low-cal vanilla.
How can you be mine?

Was that your boyfriend’s name,
chrome, in gothic bold,
run through by a fiery broadsword
over a pentagram of gold,
all tangled up in thorns and roses
creeping up out of your bra?
Did you tell the tattoo artist,
“Make ‘em red, for Ma”?
And it looks so fine, your tattoo masterpiece.
So fine, so scary, so fine.
Got no ink, I’m a billboard for nothing.
How can you be mine?

Stepping out of my shower every morning,
I watch you brush the mirror’s steam away.
Finally, I can see full-blown what’s adorning, 
head to toe, the multicolored Milky Way
drawn upon your epidermis.
What drives this kind of enormous
visual generosity?
Love or monstrosity?

May the rattlesnake coiled around
that armor-plated dove,
beneath the Chinese symbol for “garbage,”
that you thought said “love,”
never sag down your arm flab
with the weight of time
Did you tell the tattoo artist,
“I got no ladders to climb”?
And it looks so fine, your tattoo masterpiece.
So fine, so scary, so fine.
I’m a prisoner in awe of your freedom.
And you’re mine, all mine.
Yeah, you’re mine, all mine.