“The Tailor” is a dark, collaborative track by Billy Morrison featuring guest vocals and lyrics from Marilyn Manson. Released on August 7, 2026, the song is part of Morrison's album Hollow and features brooding, garment-themed lyrics paired with heavy rock compositions. This track was released one week before One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 , out next Friday (August 14th). Through vivid imagery like a "costume made of wounds" and "hemming veins," the track illustrates how people build protective public personas out of their past pain, eventually adapting to their suffering so perfectly that it becomes entirely hidden from the outside world. This intimate struggle with internalized trauma ultimately shifts into a broader critique of modern society, where humanity hides its corrupt, "crooked minds" behind superficial, "perfect" smiles while passively marching toward its own destruction. Lyrics to "The Tailor" Ah, ah, ah, ah...
“The Tailor” is a dark, collaborative track by Billy Morrison featuring guest vocals and lyrics from Marilyn Manson. Released on August 7, 2026, the song is part of Morrison's album Hollow and features brooding, garment-themed lyrics paired with heavy rock compositions. This track was released one week before One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2, out next Friday (August 14th).
Through vivid imagery like a "costume made of wounds" and "hemming veins," the track illustrates how people build protective public personas out of their past pain, eventually adapting to their suffering so perfectly that it becomes entirely hidden from the outside world. This intimate struggle with internalized trauma ultimately shifts into a broader critique of modern society, where humanity hides its corrupt, "crooked minds" behind superficial, "perfect" smiles while passively marching toward its own destruction.
Through vivid imagery like a "costume made of wounds" and "hemming veins," the track illustrates how people build protective public personas out of their past pain, eventually adapting to their suffering so perfectly that it becomes entirely hidden from the outside world. This intimate struggle with internalized trauma ultimately shifts into a broader critique of modern society, where humanity hides its corrupt, "crooked minds" behind superficial, "perfect" smiles while passively marching toward its own destruction.
Lyrics to "The Tailor"
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
Every promise is a funeral suit
I'm making garments, afraid to be worn
Still begging the dark for the measurements
Of a body I've already torn
A costume made of wounds
I keep trying to live in the shape I was born to deform
We wear our pain like we wear our clothes
The more that it fits, the less that it shows
We wear our pain like we wear our clothes
The more that it fits, the less that it shows
Ah, ah, ah
I learned to pray with a tailor's mouth
Hemming my vеins with trembling silver
Stitched up my disguisе to kneel and to breathe
A confession that I deliver
We wear our pain like we wear our clothes
The more that it fits, the less that it shows
We wear our pain like we wear our clothes
The more that it fits, the less that it shows
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Our perfect teeth and our crooked minds
We're just smiling at the end of times
Our perfect teeth and our crooked minds
We're just smiling at the end of times
We're just smiling at the end of times
End of times
End of times
We're just smiling at the end of times
End of times
End of times
We wear our pain like we wear our clothes
The more that it fits, the less that it shows
We wear our pain like we wear our clothes
The more that it fits, the less that it shows
We wear our pain
Ooh-ooh
We wear our pain
Ooh-ooh
We wear our pain like we wear our clothes
The more that it fits, the less that it shows
Our perfect teeth and our crooked minds
We're just smiling at the end of times
Our perfect teeth and our crooked minds
We're just smiling at the end of times
Interview With Billy Morrison
During his interview on Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk, Billy Morrison discussed his collaboration on "The Tailor" by highlighting his deep personal bond and newfound closeness with Marilyn Manson following Manson's complete sobriety.
"I’ve known him for a long, long while. I definitely knew him back then, but we’ve gotten a lot closer. I mean, you can’t help but get closer to people when they stop being loaded. Most people I know become much nicer when they’re not getting hammered, you know? I would not be able to make these records or hang out or even talk to you if I was loaded. You wouldn’t want that. I’m an idiot when I’m using, like most of us. Manson is a joy to be around. He’s a lovely man. I reconnected really seriously at Ozzy’s funeral. I had to do one of the eulogies in England at the house and I haven’t been in that kind of state in a long while. I was really emotional and he helped me. He helped me a lot. Unconditional love. He just, you know, he put his arm around me and he said a few things and that meant the world, and then you know, we got back to America and I said, 'Listen, I’ve got this track and there’s only one person that can sing it and it’s you,' and he loved it and we did it.”
"I’ve known him for a long, long while. I definitely knew him back then, but we’ve gotten a lot closer. I mean, you can’t help but get closer to people when they stop being loaded. Most people I know become much nicer when they’re not getting hammered, you know? I would not be able to make these records or hang out or even talk to you if I was loaded. You wouldn’t want that. I’m an idiot when I’m using, like most of us. Manson is a joy to be around. He’s a lovely man. I reconnected really seriously at Ozzy’s funeral. I had to do one of the eulogies in England at the house and I haven’t been in that kind of state in a long while. I was really emotional and he helped me. He helped me a lot. Unconditional love. He just, you know, he put his arm around me and he said a few things and that meant the world, and then you know, we got back to America and I said, 'Listen, I’ve got this track and there’s only one person that can sing it and it’s you,' and he loved it and we did it.”