Lyrics to 'Paint' by Cast of Lions

'What lies ahead of me, all good things go bad
Strip naked energy, that this used to have
I painted you by numbers, then watched the colour dry
Hated how easy I could tear you apart and hardly try
Artist inside of me don’t you turn to dust
You must of lied to me to make me believe i was good enough
Got your head in a pimblic sheen
All the wholes like starry stream
Safe and sound in a world you made
Not a song in the world could say how
I painted you by numbers, then watched the colour dry
Hated how easy I could tear you apart and hardly try
When I feel whole
All the colours change
Like an open stone
Couldn’t feel further from same
within your force field
All the seasons change
Like an open stone
There’s always someone else to blame
Taste like it feels
Watch when they heal
Got your head in a pimblic sheen
All the wholes like starry stream
Safe and sound in a world you made
Not a song in the world could say
I painted you by numbers, then watched the colour dry
Hated how easy I could tear you apart and hardly try'

    In 'Paint' it alludes to the idea of a transition or change, which could be visually represented with my exterior location of a forest, highlighted by the line 'seasons change' as nature constantly changes throughout the year. The idea of a change, along with lines such as 'hated how easy I could tear you apart and hardly try' ', 'Safe and sound in a world you made' and 'There’s always someone else to blame' have a link to my running theme of mental illness and Dissociative Identity Disorder as I decided for my video I would interpret the lyrics as being directed to another part of ones self rather than being directed to another person entirely. This reflects Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding model of the relationship between text and audience- the text is encoded by those who produced it and is then decoded by the reader, arising the possibility of major differences between one person's reading/interpretation of the same text as another individual's. I think having themes such as these would make for very interesting visuals, and would enable me to follow aspects of Goodwin's theory such as portraying a strong link between the lyrics and the visuals on screen.