From RAMMSTEIN (untitled album) · 2019 · Track 10
Tattoo
«Tattoo»
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In context
A documentary oddity: there are two official versions of the same lyric that don't fully match.
- The body
- Permanent mark
- Documentary discrepancy
- Origin
- From the 2019 untitled album. On 19 April that year, a month before the release, the band posted a teaser in which only the guitar could be heard.
- The German key
- “Tattoo” entered German as a loanword and is used just as it is in English; the title needs no translation.
- What the band has said
- The band has not explained the difference between the two versions of the lyric.
- Live
- In the setlist since the 2019 tour.
Our reading
The lyric Rammstein registered with GEMA — the German collecting society for music rights — differs slightly from the one printed in the physical album's booklet. It is neither censorship nor a later rewrite: they are two official documents of the same song that don't match, something you only notice by comparing them line by line.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
Two “official” versions of the same text
An unusual detail within the band’s catalogue: the lyric Rammstein registered with GEMA, Germany’s copyright collection society, differs slightly from the one printed in the physical album’s booklet. It isn’t a case of censorship or a later rewrite — just two official documents of the same song that don’t quite line up, something only noticeable by comparing them line by line.
On 19 April 2019, a month before the album came out, the band uploaded a teaser to its official YouTube channel featuring only the guitar.
Context
Tenth track on the self-titled 2019 album, recorded in 2018 at Studio La Fabrique, France, produced by Olsen Involtini. Released 17 May 2019. It was never a single.
Live
It debuted on 24 May 2019 and was played 33 times through 23 August of that year.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.