That article also says "it's about how useless he felt in relation to this other person"..that's his current girlfriend. Newspapers and magazines love romanticism and sensationalism, so they make it seem to do with Charlotte. He wrote the song and got the tattoo on his belly when he was with his new girlfriend. The line "Stroke by stroke, you fill my empty soul with colour" is because his new girlfriend's an artist.
That article also says "it's about how useless he felt in relation to this other person"..that's his current girlfriend. Newspapers and magazines love romanticism and sensationalism, so they make it seem to do with Charlotte. He wrote the song and got the tattoo on his belly when he was with his new girlfriend. The line "Stroke by stroke, you fill my empty soul with colour" is because his new girlfriend's an artist.