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Painting On The Wall Lyrics
Strong on your feet, you were blinded
Building up a towar on shaking ground
Once in a world full of colors
Back to see just ruins there to be found
And now you're falling, crawling
Diggin in the broken remains
Of what had to be taken for strong
Slowly it's been fading away
Come into the painting on the wall
So the joker smiles
Come into the painting on the wall
No more crying
Illusions let you in from the rain
Follow Mr. Hopkins, get insane
Stories are told - wanna hear him
Talking from the picture to your head
Follow the call of a puppet
Led into a black room painted red
Where life is painless, brainless
You don't think of broken remains
Of what had to be taken for strong
Slowly it's been fading away
[repeat chorus]
[solo: Jens]
Look at the picture
Point at the child there on the floor
Realize that it's a looking glass
[repeat chorus]
Building up a towar on shaking ground
Once in a world full of colors
Back to see just ruins there to be found
Diggin in the broken remains
Of what had to be taken for strong
Slowly it's been fading away
So the joker smiles
Come into the painting on the wall
No more crying
Illusions let you in from the rain
Follow Mr. Hopkins, get insane
Talking from the picture to your head
Follow the call of a puppet
Led into a black room painted red
You don't think of broken remains
Of what had to be taken for strong
Slowly it's been fading away
[solo: Jens]
Point at the child there on the floor
Realize that it's a looking glass
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This song is really beautiful. It seems to be about that if you're depressed because of an event that happened to you, that just look yourself and realize that it isn't worth. The painting refers to...well, anything. Anything that can bring a person from depression.
I dedicated this to my gf... I sang this to her...
yeah... that was the same vibe i got from this amazing song.
first I didn't really know what this song was about... I've thought it was about 911, just ruins to be found and the painting on the wall was in a church where those who lost a close one came for funerals.
According to Tobias:
""Painting on the wall" is a song talking about those situations when you have to realise, that something is not what you thought it would be. Sometimes it seems to be easier to live an illusion, which is finally not the right way in my opinion."