MGK’s latest song tells the tragic tale of the blackout tattoo

The meaning behind Machine Gun Kelly’s blackout tattoo is tragic.

The 33-year-old rapper’s announcement of his new tattoos, which covered up all of his previous body art on his arms and torso and were posted “for spiritual purposes” on Instagram, disappointed many.

In contrast, MGK explored the tragic backstory of the new tattoos in his most recent song, Don’t Let Me Go, which was published on Wednesday.

In the song, Colson Baker, better known as MGK, revealed that he had a “breakdown” before getting the tattoo.

He raps over a piano melody, “Lately my thought eating me alive / laid in the bed thinking maybe the hate’ll finally go away if I’m not alive.”

He goes on, “Everything’s just fine, but I wish I didn’t listen and that they would understand me once. I had a breakdown and tattooed everything on my body except for one line.”

“There I go slippin’ again, I’m actin’ different again, slippin’ again.” He muses even more.

The I Think I’m Okay singer continues the poignant song by talking about his relationship with fiancé Megan Fox, which had ups and downs following her miscarriage.

He even said that he regretted not being there for her during this terrible ordeal.

“How can I live with the fact that my hand wasn’t on her stomach when we lost the baby?” he asks himself at one point in the song.

MGK already shared his sorrow over the miscarriage in the 2022 song Twin Fame.

In the meantime, Fox acknowledged that her fiancé gave her the courage to be candid about her experiences in her poetry collection, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous.