Tattoo by Paul Aherne of Spilled Ink Tattoo

Flavorwire's music editor, Tom Hawking, put together "The Most Beautiful Song Lyric Tattoos We've Seen," which go beyond lettering and combine "artistic flourish" to the music tributes. He picked fifteen tattoos, from odes to Nick Cave to Michael Jackson to Tori Amos (shown above). Would've loved to see the tattoo artists credited, but there are a number of watermarks on the images as sources.

If you have music tattoos of your own you'd like to share, post them on the Needles & Sins FB group page or Tweet at me.