Paint it black lyrics4/9/2023 The singer/narrator - for whatever the reason may be - consistently refers to his or her unwillingness to repress and deny sexual desires on a relatively consistent - and possibly everyday - basis. This song is clearly a direct reference to suppressed sexual aggression, and based on the singer being a male, most likely male sexual aggression. Thus with "I see a red door and I want it painted black," we have an expression of the singer's grief he doesn't believe he can ever be happy again in fact, it almost seems as if he doesn't WANT to be happy again.Ĭouple this with the lines: "I see a line of cars and they're all painted black with flowers and my love both never to come back," it seems obvious that he's singing of a funeral procession, and that the whole song is a poignant expression of a man deeply grieving the death of his "love," perhaps, as revealed by "maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts It's not easy facing up when you whole world is black" to the point of being suicidal, and ("I wanna see the sun, blotted out from the sky") wanting his world to end, since she is no longer in his world. One point I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that, in Chinese culture, red is considered "the" color for happy occasions, and in feng shui, red is frequently considered the best color to paint one's front door, to help encourage a happy home. His active customer-base quickly went from almost one to absolutely zero, where it remained until such time as our deranged narrator effected a full and lasting cure of his own devising, and the sun shone brightly upon his his little piss-ant world once again. Clearly, his ongoing obsession with black pointed to the fact that black was the only color he would paint in - no matter what the object or item, in his hands it was destined to become black - either flat, satin or glossy, but always black. Returning to the matter of our poor, depressed narrator's unemployment. This completes his descent into a twisted darkness, which is what he was seeking, as he came to understand that only through a complete and total "Blackout" would he ever have any hope of returning to a condition of recovery & redemption. He's an unemployed painter, depressed because he's unemployed and probably has been for a long time, which, as is not uncommon, led to a somewhat permanently altered state of mind - to the point where he actually was driven to a place of hopelessness that felt so unrelentingly gut-wrenching and seemed to be horribly eternal that he felt compelled to "complete the circle" so to speak and destroy the one remaining point of disruptive light in his life - his one, true love.
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