Mixing black. With every cosmic star. The odyssey became an insularity of dreams. Close your eyes and see a rainbow. Upon opening them a sea of black with blue waves surviving resistance. Is it only in this dream that the blue waves touched your heart? More so than any other vision. Black night cometh and goeth. While the day seeks the coming of light. Copyright © Susy Kamber Song Selection - Paint It, Black - Ramin Djawadi “Mixing black. With every cosmic star.” Black here isn’t emptiness or evil—it’s the vast background of existence. When mixed with stars, it becomes the space that allows light to exist. This suggests the blending of darkness and brilliance, shadow and meaning, rather than one canceling the other. “The odyssey became an insularity of dreams.” An odyssey is a long outward journey, but here it turns inward—into solitude, privacy, and inner dreaming. The speaker’s journey has shifted from the external world to the internal one. “Close your eyes and see a rainbow.” With eyes closed, imagination, memory, and emotion produce color and richness. Truth and beauty appear not through sight, but through inner perception. “Upon opening them a sea of black with blue waves surviving resistance.” Reality reappears darker, heavier. Yet the blue waves—often symbols of emotion, depth, calm, or truth—persist despite resistance. Feeling survives even when the world looks bleak. “Is it only in this dream that the blue waves touched your heart?” This is a quiet challenge: do you only allow yourself to feel deeply in dreams, art, or imagination? Or can that emotional truth exist while awake? “More so than any other vision.” It suggests that this inner vision—this emotional resonance—was stronger than anything seen externally. “Black night cometh and goeth.” Darkness is temporary. It has rhythm, not permanence. This line carries patience and reassurance. “While the day seeks the coming of light.” Even daylight is not complete without light—it longs for illumination, clarity, meaning. Hope is not passive; it seeks. ⸻ Overall meaning The poem reflects on the tension between inner truth and outer reality. It suggests that darkness and difficulty are not the opposite of beauty, but the context in which it becomes visible. Emotional depth, symbolized by the blue waves, survives resistance and may touch us most powerfully in dreams—but the poem gently asks whether we can carry that truth into waking life. At its heart, this is a meditation on hope, inner vision, and the endurance of feeling, even when surrounded by darkness. (ChatGPT interpretation)