A Further Note About "Painted."

Some of you may have all ready read Alexis's take on the Evans Blue song, "Painted." Well, being as it's one of my favorite songs that they've done (seriously, music is supposed to evoke emotions), I listened to it again. This time, purely unintentionally, I figured out what the voices are saying in the background during the last two minutes of the song. People, if you thought it was creepy before, get a load of this.

1: "I can see you and you can't see me. I am right here and I'm waiting" is echoed in a woman's voice as well as Kevin Matisyn's.

2: "Be a nice puta" is uttered right after this. Puta translates from Spanish as "bitch" or "whore." This voice goes on but is drowned out by the guitar.

3: Another voice gets progressively louder, as if yelling angrily at someone. This will change eventually as the song gets closer to the end.

4: As it does, you can hear him say something along the lines of "I can see you and you can see me. You will die while your waiting." I'm not exactly sure if that's what's said, but I can make out "You will die" pretty clearly.

5: He then yells: "I can't believe this is coming! Oh my God... don't!"

6: While Matisyn goes on like a circus barker, you can her the guy who was screaming seemingly plead and beg for his life. Occasionally, he'll scream "Put it down," "No body does this to me," and finally "Put down the knife." (I'm iffy on that last one, but most of it becomes pretty clear when you really listen.

7: Finally, as the "waiting' part drones on, "Oh my God, the place (sic) is sick" is uttered.

8: Towards the middle of the second droning, "I'm so sorry" is whispered from the man who was screaming. Then, "I'm dying..."

9: This is followed by someone whispering "Good night."

Considering that Evans Blue has done songs about heroin addicts, relating a woman to a dragon (and saying that its a confession to an adversary), and one that I'm pretty sure is about a man in love with a prostitute, this one really shouldn't surprise me as much as it does. The writing is pretty well done, but the execution goes from sympathetic to frantic to down right frightening, only accentuated by the little details that are drowned out by the music. This is rather impressive.

- Ben

EDIT: I caught this one tonight, and it changes the initial interpretation of the song.

After the frantic part fades out, and the droning starts, a female voice can be heard. Think back to Alexis's analysis, when the part "She whispered in his ear, 'don't hurt me, don't forget me, I'm not completely together.'" The female voice says, rather weakly, "Don't hurt me." Right after this, another voice says, "Goodnight," before the initial ending.

Why does this change what we had thought before? Because, this means she didn't kill him. It means he killed her. Whether he had killed her before the song and he's cleaning up the scene while he's talking/remembering, or whether he killed her just then seems to be left ambiguous. Funny how the song only gets scarier.