Hello!:)
I want to get a tattoo that’s not on a very usual location, nor is it a very usual text.. So the problem is, that when I ask my friends whether I should get it or not, I always tell them the whole story behind it, and how much it means to me and so on, and then they are like ‘aww how nice, it’s pretty unique!” BUT – I want a few opinions of people who I don’t know, just to make sure the tattoo wouldn’t look stupid to the common viewer :p
So please, be honest!
Here’s a quickly-photoshopped picture (sorry for it’s blurriness) of the wanted tattoo, but that’s not correct text:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b298/Calyptica/DSC06046.jpg
The correct text is ”Tell me now, why we’re so scared to dream, that we all lie awake ’till morning?” and it’s from a song that – as I said – means a lot to me.
and it would look like this:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b298/Calyptica/newtattoo.jpg
🙂
The letters would be a bit bigger than on the first picture… I’m not sure about the font tho! And another thing – should I change the word ”till’ to ‘until’ ?
Any opinion/suggestion is very welcome! 😉
Mmmh that really is an unusual placement.
First of all, I don’t think it would look “stupid”, but consider this: If you wear a shirt, half of the quote will be covered while the part on your neck is still readable, so that may look a bit odd? Are you sure you want the tattoo to extend on your neck? I dont know if or where you work, but visible tattoos can be a problem in some companies.
The font looks nice but imo you’d need to get it a lot bigger than in the picture, otherwise you are running the risk of it blurring to the point of being hard to read within a short time.
And now the quote: Personally I wouldnt change anything. If the original says “’till” I’d just go with that, you are also getting we’re and not “we are” 😉
Where is the quote from? Grammatically it’s a mess. If it’s a direct quote from somewhere don’t change it, if it’s something you wrote I would take a moment to think about the punctuation and verbiage of the quote. Edit- Whoops you said it was from a song. Have you looked up the lyrics? is this how is supposed to be written?
As far as the placement, I agree with Jlin. It will be half way cut off when you are wearing a shirt making it hard to read but on the flip side of the same coin, it’s going to be visible to everyone… are you sure you want something that you can’t really hide? keep in mind that you will be in a different place professionally 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now.
All that aside, It’s a cool tat. Keep us in the loop with what you chose to do.
Aw, thanks for the replies!
Well.. I already have a tat around my wrist, but I can cover it up with a big bracelet.. So – no, I’m not sure if I should get this on my neck, but I really don’t know where else to place it, since the sentence is quite long… I know I could get it somewhere on my back or on my belly, but I’d like to save up those places for some future (bigger) pieces. I was thinking about maybe cutting off the ‘Tell me now’ part, so it wouldn’t extend to the neck? I mean, it wouldn’t be the original text, but the most meaningful part would stay.. but then again, should I fix the grammatical errors as well? I looked up the lyrics and yep, this is how it’s supposed to be written.. but if someone would ask me, I would only change it to ”till THE morning’ (apart from that, I don’t see any other grammatical errors, oh well :p unfortunately, english isn’t my first language..) haha, I’m on the first picture – thanks for the compliment! ;D
And yes, I would definitely go bigger. I quickly photoshopped the picture quite some time ago, because I only wanted to show the placement idea to a friend, but then I used the same one here as well 🙂 lazy me..
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Why don’t you get it across your back, but right at the top, along under your neckline. that way there’s still plenty of room for other things on your back and it’s similar to your original idea
Tell me now, why we’re so scared to dream, that we all lie awake ’till morning?
I think that seriously, that it doesnt quite make much sense as it is. But one that would work to get the meaning that the sentence is going for still uses essentially the same words (and this is without the tell me now, as you suggested)
Why are we so scared to dream, that we like awake ’till morning
Basically, by moving the are we, with the order reversed, it just makes the emphasis on the ‘so’ slightly different so it matches up with the ‘that’ which was floating a bit before. Does that still create the meaning you were going for?
If you want this to be purely you, then it shouldnt matter if you take the lyric for basis and then alter it slightly. of course, if you want it exact, that’s fine, but you seem worried about what people will think and written the way it is it takes a couple of readings to get the meaning
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Why don’t you get it across your back, but right at the top, along under your neckline. that way there’s still plenty of room for other things on your back and it’s similar to your original idea
Tell me now, why we’re so scared to dream, that we all lie awake ’till morning?
I think that seriously, that it doesnt quite make much sense as it is. But one that would work to get the meaning that the sentence is going for still uses essentially the same words (and this is without the tell me now, as you suggested)
Why are we so scared to dream, that we like awake ’till morning
Basically, by moving the are we, with the order reversed, it just makes the emphasis on the ‘so’ slightly different so it matches up with the ‘that’ which was floating a bit before. Does that still create the meaning you were going for?
If you want this to be purely you, then it shouldnt matter if you take the lyric for basis and then alter it slightly. of course, if you want it exact, that’s fine, but you seem worried about what people will think and written the way it is it takes a couple of readings to get the meaning
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Exactly! I would even take out the comma and put in a question mark.
Why are we all so scared to dream that we lie awake ’till morning?
You could ad stylization to make it more stressful on certain parts of the sentence as well. Make the SO, dream and awake in larger, different font, maybe a different color?
The problem is that if the lyrics or song mean something to you than you should get the original quote. If it’s the meaning of the lyrics that have impact on you I would change it up because as stated above, it doesn’t really make sense the way it is.
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!
Why are we so scared to dream, that we like awake ’till morning?
Yes, I like the idea. But if my calculations are correct, the tattoo would still be too big (considering that I would have to use larger letters… I think it would still extend to the neck :/
@Poesy: I’m sure that would look great, but I really wanna save up my nape and upper back, because I’m planning to get a piece that’s going to cover both of these parts at the same time 🙂
An alternate idea that I like is getting the title of the song tattooed – It’s called ‘Initiate dream sequence’. That way, the tattoo would somehow capture the meaning of the whole song, which is a plus.. I know that I would have to explain this piece more exhaustively to people than the originally planed, but that’s not a problem for me (I have ‘Strawberry fields forever’ tattooed around my wrist, I surely have to explain that one a lot! :p)
So what do you think? Written in a bit more abstract font, for example? 🙂
Well if you consider it a plus, go for it! Definitely solves your space issue 😉
Personally I’d rather go with the quote, because the song title itself doesn’t convey a message to me whereas the quote does, although I’m not familiar with the song.
In the end it’s your decision, if you like it, do it! And don’t worry about the explaining, I’d be more concerned about not being able to hide it if I ever needed to.
If you really, really wanted to cut it down, get ‘why are we so afraid to dream?’ across the shoulder.
I’m assuming that’s the crux of it? The morning part is surely the consequence of the fear, and the first part the questioning of it?
I sort of agree with Jlin, I dont think the title is as meaningful.
Lol…maybe it would help if you explained the meaning of it to us so we can be more helpful? I get that meaning is important, mine’s been a bout a year in the design
Poesy
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