I had this tattoo right after the first listening of the chromatica album! You can't read it, but There's something gaga said behing her head, and it is "POETRY OF PAIN" Trauma is an unexpected, sudden event. It leaves more or less deep wounds that become scars. Scars can be mor 2/6 or less obvious, but even long after a traumatic event, they always seem open wounds, still sore, and that never leave us. When you experience trauma, you think you can never overcome pain. Time stops, the future is darkened, the conscience is clouded, the emotions are annihilated; However, as Gaga says, "it takes enough effort, time and faith". the effort must absolutely come from the deep, you must fight with your inner hurted part, guided and armed by emotions, and strive to accept what happened, not as a punishment, but as part of your journey (whether you like it or not) and try everything to move forward, beyond. Time is what we cannot control, that inevitably flows, and that teaches us not to wait, but to be patient. Faith is that love that allows you to abandon yourself completely, to Someone greater, and that allows you to let go, when you are so attached to your pain. It's a component that may not belong to everyone, but in my case it was fundamental, it was my lifeline, when I reached the darkest point of my pain, when I thought I could slide even further down. What was always with me and helped me, was art. The art form that most excites me, and that moves something inside of me, even when everything is still, is music. As Gaga also says, music is made of waves, which propagate into space. It's like those waves are coming right at the most emotional point of my heart, and making it vibrate, so much so that all my control systems collapse, and my purest, most raw, deepest emotions come out. In every song on this album, I found a few bits of myself, words that speak to me, and that not only talk about what I experienced, but offer me the possibility of seeing it from another point of view, and therefore, also of healing. Choosing one song to tattoo would have been hard, so I chose em all. This tracklist represents a journev, that starts from the fall in the Rabbit hole, where the light cannot come in, where there is fear, confusion, pain, but it ends with the flight of a thousand doves, thanks to the enough effort, patience and faith, where all it takes is a little nude, the right encouragement to spread the wings, and finally flv awav from vour pain. Of course, vouwill never lose sight of it, but this flight will allow you to go towards the light, which can enter from all the cracks of the heart, and heal it. This is...the poetry of pain. "What aives consistency to trauma is not pain itself, but the feeling of powerlessness that generates a dominant thought: I am not capable of that. The trace that remains in us depends on how the event is elaborated and on the tools that vou have, to cross it. What no longer exists in terms of time, in our intimate realitv is more than alive, it repeats over and over, and the suffering we experience is a chain that binds us to the past" - R.