Paint It Black Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording: RCA Studios, Los Angeles, USA, March 1966Performed onstage: 1966-67, 1989-90, 1998-99, 2003, 2005-07
Highest Charts Positions US 1 - UK 1
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards
Electric guitar: Keith Richards
Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Background vocal: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Sitar: Brian Jones
Organ: Bill Wyman
Piano: Jack Nitzsche
Percussion: Mick Jagger
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colours 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 goesI 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 newborn baby, it just happens every dayI look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door, I must have it painted black
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facing up when your whole world is blackNo 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 comesI want to see it painted, painted black, black as night, black as coal
I want to see the sun blotted out from the sky
I want to see it painted, painted, painted, painted black, yeah
