lightning 36's List of All Time Favorite Songs: #3

Songs that deal with emotion and feature vivid imagery often become part of my regular playlists. Favorite song #3 is the earliest song in my lifetime that I can remember that had raw emotion and imagery in spades. Depression almost always makes for a great song, and mixed with the idea of dealing with an untimely death ...

Credit the Rolling Stones with making a song that takes you into a deep, dark place ....

Favorite song #3: Paint It Black

I see a red door and I want it painted black

No colors anymore I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black

With flowers and my love both never to come back

I see people turn their heads and quickly look away

Like a new born baby it just happens every day

I look inside myself and see my heart is black

I see my red door and it has been painted black

Maybe then Ill fade away and not have to face the facts

Its not easy facin up when your whole world is black

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue

I could not foresee this thing happening to you

If I look hard enough into the setting sun

My love will laugh with me before the morning comes

I see a red door and I want it painted black

No colors anymore I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes

I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

Hmm, hmm, hmm,...

I wanna see it painted, painted black

Black as night, black as coal

I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky

I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black

Yeah!