Rolling Stones: Paint it Black

Many songs today have little to no meaning to them, they are mostly about sex, drugs, and alcohol. so if I ever want to dissect a song and find a profound message I always revert to my 80's, 70's, and 60's playlist. I have been listening to Rolling Stones lately and when Dr. deGravelle's assigned us this blog, I immediately reverted back to Paint It Black.

In this song there are many metaphors and symbolic lines in this song. Overall, I think that this song is about someone facing depression because of the loss of a love one. The technique that I used to find the meaning of the song is sections that tell a story and symbolize something like the piece below:
"I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes."  This talking about how he sees a girl that  remind him of the past girl, and he has to keep looking at her until he realizes that it is not her.
"I see a line of cars and they're all painted black" Mick Jagger referencing to the hearse and the line of black vehicles behind it
"With flowers and my both never to come back" This is talking about all the flowers that people give for the funeral, and his companion dying and never returning.
"I could not foresee this thing happening to you" He never imagined of her sudden death.
"If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes" This is referring to heaven.
Another thing that Paint It Black could mean is that he is painting everything black symbolizing he emotions. Depression, is often personified with dark colors because of sadness, Mick Jagger is painting everything black because he is depressed. This especially supports this idea once he says
"No colors anymore I want them to turn black". You find a repeating pattern of Mick Jagger starting many of his line with "I".

youtube lyrics- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zBG2TEjn4