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“Painting By Numbers” is a reflection on the modern illusion of freedom — a world where rebellion is rehearsed, art is deconstructed, and truth collapses under its own disguise. Through vivid imagery and layered metaphors, the song explores how passion becomes performance and the painter is slowly absorbed into the picture he once tried to change. It’s both an elegy for lost authenticity and a challenge to rediscover it.


Painting By Numbers 

I walked the street until my shadow grew 
like a stencil of an after life 
Drawn upon the concrete's subtle hue
This canvas bears no rebel's brand 

Now these slogans are on city walls
they gasp and fall upon their knees
A cuss on riches, guns and politics
Silent children grow from hot house seeds

The deconstruction of his art
Put the horse before the cart 
To turn them in their slumbers 
So they can feel the lust like pain
Beneath the curd of love’s distain
Just like painting them by numbers

A pretty girl with blood red curls
Can speak much louder to the world 
Than a house of whispered sermons yellow
As the page from which they burl
Disneyland to Bethlehem the irony's divided

And the corset round the world is pulled so tight It's no shock that truth has fainted
In earthy tongues that please revolution plants its seeds 
Mystery falls upon its knees the painter becomes painted 

The deconstruction of his art
Put the horse before the cart 
To turn them in their slumbers 
So they can feel the lust like pain
Beneath the curd of love’s distain
Just like painting them by numbers

Millions will chase and place a snare for you
A ghost who paints rebellion
With the slight of a puppet's hand
Satire through geometry will smile back at you

Copyright 
Colin Hilton October 2025

Painting By Numbers

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