Time-Released Tattoo

Time-released tattoos, these bruises 

Pain ingrained when someone loses 

Balance in the brain and uses 

Violence, blame, and lame excuses 

Hired guns we dangle nooses 

Strangle geese, and sheep, and moose 

As if this gift of life is useless 

Don we now our gay abuses 

Time-release tattoo, I thought you knew

Time-released tattoos that cover 

Half the planet, crooked govern-

Ments that grab, they do not govern 

Us, they're more like hawks that hover 

Over us--over others 

Always over, never under 

What the eff, no effin' wonder 

Time-released tattoo 

Time-released tattoo that reaches 

Far beyond its native beaches 

Lincoln and his famous speeches 

Plymouth Rock and Georgia peaches 

Time-released tattoos like leeches 

Practice not what Jesus teaches 

Broken treaties no one speaks of 

Time-released tattoo 

Time-released tattoo, a virus 

On computer and papyrus 

Needing idols to inspire us 

Schwarzenegger and Osiris 

Time-released tattoo get ready 

Show your face and hold it steady 

Let me love you fierce and deadly 

With both laser and machete 

Time-released tattoo, I thought you knew