Red door: *exists* Black paint: *whispers* "It's free real estate."

i like how she dropped this hit, and then never did anything like this ever again rude af

If I were asked to describe this song in one word: Haunting. Bloody brilliant take on a classic! Love it.

Ciara's voice has mad range.... wow! She is so underrated

Her humming at the beggining is all i need.

I am a classic rock fan, including the Rolling Stones... In my opinion, this cover is a beautiful version of theirs. It's so different, powerful, and infused with so much talent. Way to go, Ciara! This ROCKS! 🎸🎼🎤

she has done this song justice. unlike a few other covers out that havent put the emotion into the song.

Her vocals give me chills. I want to dress up in my thigh highs and strut down the street. She's always been one of my favorite artists for this reason right here. She can pull off anything

This song feels like it's made for villains.😮 You know those who became villains after a tragic story or something.😅

I want some dark r&b from her now.

When I listen to this song, I can't help picturing in my mind a story about a pure soul on the brink of siding the dark side because it got tired of being constantly trampled by others.

I'm a fan of classic rock and tbh she nailed this. The original is good and all but I always felt it was to upbeat for the lyrics. This version matches the context!

Ciara is having such an amazing year. I'm happy she got to cover such an amazing song, showing off her versatility in her artistry and the tones of her voice. CiCi is truly that triple threat. The slayage here >>>>>>

"I Look Inside Myself And See My Heart Is Blaaaaaaack, I See My Red Door I Must Have It Painted Blaaaaaaack" Go Off Ciara!!!!!!!!

Ciara is made for dark pop/R&B. I hope she drops more songs like this

This rendition is incredible! Can’t believe this is the first time hearing it

She protecc She attacc But most importantly, She paint it blacc.

When you switch to Dark Mode.

Like it how she's made the original more epic and haunting at the same time. Great job.

Best cover I've heard of this and a lot of bands have done it. They don't capture the sadness like she does here. 🖤

Idk why, but this sounds like it could be played in a Bond film.

Takes really guts to cover a rolling stones song and she killed it

She took a song that was dark and made it even darker this version is haunting

The vocal control 🔥🔥🔥

A music video for this would have probably officially killed me, so I guess it's for the best we just got the audio.

This is really great. I love covers that somehow transform the original instead of trying to replicate it, and that's exactly what this is.

I love how artists take classic songs and transform it from a happy unbeat song into a slow, dark, cinematic masterpiece. Lorde did the same for "everybody wants to rule the world"

“I look inside myself and see my heart is black…” “It’s not easy facing up when your whole world is black…” These lyrics hit me so hard…

Phenomenal cover. Ciara has taken the entire song and changed it completely giving her own stamp to it.

She most definitely needs more songs like this.

I don’t want to disrespect The Rolling Stones but this version is better i think.

The best covers are the ones where the singer makes it their OWN...that's what Whitney Houston did with I Will Always Love You, what Johnny Cash did with Hurt, what Disturbed did with The Sound of Silence and what Ciara does right here.

where the HELL have I been for 4 years???

Damn, Ciara. Who would’ve thought? You’ve been sleep this whole time. THIS is the type of music you need to be doing.

Ciara sounds amazing here and the production is incredible. I'd love for her to work with this producer again. Absolute 🔥

I LOVE this! I don't on the norm listen to mainstream singers, so when I clicked on this out of curiosity, I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. Powerful, haunting and vulnerable all at once. This is STUNNING. I am musically oriented to a large degree and this gave me chills, goosebumps and all that good stuff after the fourth listen. Also an artist and I got about twenty art piece ideas one after the other. Putting this on repeat! Thank you Ciara!

I imagine this song playing as a villain's tragic backstory is being remembered. As she reminisces on what brought her here, she destroys everything in her path, smiling wickedly as she vanquishes the hero.

I see a red door I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I quickly turn my head until my darkness goes I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black With flowers and my love, both never to come back I see people turn their heads then quickly look away Like a new born baby, it happens everyday I look inside myself and see my heart is black I see my red door, I must have it painted black Maybe then I’ll fade away and not have to face the facts It’s not easy facing up, when your whole world is black No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue I could not foresee this thing happening to you If I look hard enough into the settin’ sun My love will laugh with me before the mornin’ comes Hmm 16x I wanna see it painted, painted black Black as night, black as coal I wanna see the sun, blotted out from the sky I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black Yeah Hmm x16

Why the most angelic voices are usually the best for expressing our darkness emotions ?

Wish she sung more in the these dark chords with emotive vocals. This is pure gold.

Holy shit . That was actually good

Sometimes the villains were once heroes too. It just so happened that nobody saved them when they needed to be saved so they became the monsters we all taught them to be.

I love Ciara’s voice this is one of my favorite song’s by her 🖤🖤🖤

now I'm blessed from god. this song is what i always wanted. perfect voice, perfect work. THANK YOU CIARA. YOU'RE MY GOD.

Who's here in 2020? Still the best darkest song I've ever heard!

Wooow, I'm absolutly blown away by this! I LOVE the Rolling Stones original and never expected this cover to be that good. The way Ciara turned the song into her own style to make it sound modern and totally different, but still dark, haunting and beautiful as the original, and (unlike most covers) AUTHENTIC.

Her voice gives me chills. She is so talented 😍😍

Definitely giving me female villian vibes I am LIVIN for it ♥

I can't stop playing this song I love how she slowed down the music you can really see the darkness truly in this song good work ciara keep up the good work 😊😊😊

People realize this is a Rolling Stones Song she covered right? I mean it's a great cover, but...this is a classic from 1966.

Still my favourite cover of all time and one of my favourites by Ciara.

THIS SONG IS ADDICTING ❤❤❤

Ciara welcome to the dark side. Now would be so kindly to drop another villain song like again. WE HAVE VOTED

"I looked inside myself and see my heart is black " this is my favourite part

Is it normal to be obsessed with this song? I'm in love with Ciara's voice

This cover still gives me goosebumps. It’s so beautiful 😍

You’d never be able to tell this was a cover. Ciara made this song like it was her own.

Ciara did this song some mad justice. Her voice is absolutely incredible.

I never realized it was HER....the "My Goodies" songstress on this til I read it, ran across it with visual selection, and I'm soooooo hyped for THIS addition to my iTunes library!!!!!

Ciara switch deep dark mode! The words mean more than people realize. Deep bloody dark gothic to the core! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

I get how someone says that this version is messing up the feel or meaning of the message delivered from the original song. I respect everyone's opinions, however for her own style and twist to it she did a really good job in my opinion and I love it.

WOW…. Ciara take a bow, this is AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL

One of the most beautiful song I've ever heard, better than the original in my opinion.

Ohhh, she really incorporated the super villain / dark witch vibe and it sounds amazing.

It's incredible how much this woman has evolved as an artist since her first album. Hands down

This is sick, like I love this rolling Stones song and this version is just so dark I like it

I swear she ate this cover up

now this is a cover, keeping the lyrics and understanding the rift of the song but changing the song completely but still in good faith of the original. Such a dark james bond twist is such a great take on this song. Fits the lyrics, perfectly

Am I the only one who hasn't seen The Last Witch Hunter and just loves the song?

This is the type of music that should of been on her album i want more edge from her. She's such an amazing artist i just want her to win i been a fan since 04

I have yet to hear a version of this song that doesnt slap, I want to keep it that way...Ciara kept up that tradition.

Absolutely, far and away THE BEST damned cover of this song, EVER!!!! 🖤🖤🖤

This song truly represents Paint It Black in its darkest of light. Its verses describing the eyes of a Marine who comes home from Vietnam. *"I see a Red Door and I want to paint it black."* Coming home after all he's been through and wishes it was black, for it deserves no color. *"No colors anymore, I want them to turn black."* Colors that express different emotions, but black is all he feels. Emptiness. *"I see girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes, I have to turn my head until my darkness goes."* With his anger, sorrow and the despair that lingers within his heart, he turns away to avoid all contact. *"I see a line of cars and they're all painted black."* A line of cars that are black usually carry the dead, in this case, his fallen comrades to their final resting place. *"With flowers and my love, both never to come back."* My guess here, tossing flowers and surrendering love to them as both would never come back to him. *"I see people turn their heads and quickly look away"* When Vietnam veterans came back home, dead or alive, many people turned their heads in disrespect or without regard. *"Like a newborn baby it just happens everyday."* Losses in Vietnam were heavy and people just became somewhat immune to it as if it never really mattered to them. *"I look inside myself and see my heart is black."* As days pass on, he looks into hisself and sees his heart turning black, succumbing to the horrors that he brought home and the feeling of emptiness quickly taking over his soul. Darkness is all he feels at this point... *"I see my Red Door and must have it painted black."* With all the disrespect received, the hate thrown and uneducated statements followed by deaths of his brothers in arms and the hell that he walked through, his red door of his own home is desired to be black as the exterior of a coffin. *"Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts, It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black"* In his mind, he believes that if he simple just goes away and not face the facts of what he had done, such as the burning of huts and accepting his fate to the onslaught of politcal slander in view of the public, he won't have to face up for his world is all but black. Emptiness, similar to the casket in which he wishes to be in. *"No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue, I could not foresee this thing happening to you"* As he looks on to the sea and near the shore, it is green, he cannot see it going blue as he looks farther into the horizon as you mostly do in most places. That and not forseeing this happening to anyone else meaning he wouldn't ever think of this happening to anyone else other than he and those who followed him into battle. *"If I look hard enough into the setting sun, my love will laugh with me before the morning comes"* Purely my guess: Looking hard enough into the horizon of the dusk, love will laugh in mocking fashion before the morning comes. The Devil laughing at his current situation as he enters into a severe depressive suicidal state and of instability, mocking him as it all slowly turns black into night. *"I wanna see it painted, painted black. Black as night, black as coal. I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky."* Its as this point that all of his flashbacks from the war had taken its toll on his sanity. His heart filled with eternal emptiness, sadness and hatred eventually driving him to his end. Desiring everything to be black around him. Black as Night, Black as coal. The sun to be blotted out from the sky, as in the doors of the casket shutting upon him for his desire to live has reached its end point. Now, picture another line of cars, all painted black and his spirit, sitting on top of his casket, seeing girls dressed in their summer clothes. People looking away as if it was just another day. His Spirit turns away then looks at the sky, the sun blotted by a thick black cloud with patches of darkness throughout and a chilling wind as they near his own final resting place. Then as they drive away, fading to black... for it is all painted black. This is my take on the song itself, Paint It Black, made by the Rolling Stones as one of their war protest songs from the 60s. The instruments here truly make it the song's essence: A depressing and dark song that expresses what the lyrics describe. But that ending with the background singers, truly grasps just what our heroes went through and received coming back.

I absolutely love this song and I think she did an amazing job. She captured the essence and gave it her own twist. New favorite in my play list 🖤

And i thought this song couldn't have gotten any better, And i hear this cover...

Should go down in history as the best cover of all time.

As a huge fan of The Rolling Stones, I have to say this was well done. It respects the original while giving it its own unique twist.

Ciara has a fabulous voice! 🙌🏻 I love that sound! ❤️

Omg Yes Ciara Absolutely ❤ the queen or R&B has done it again 💃

I think of this from time to time. I want an album of her sitting in this range. Love it!!!

Phenomenal cover. Beautiful rendition. Ciara truly made it her own.

She did that!!! I'm here for pop rock Ciara

IMHO, one of the best covers of a classic EVER!!

Absolutely great song and this is the only version that I play. Far above the rest.

Her humming from the beginning is so..soothing and mother like . I would like to listen for 1 hour just her humming ,love it.

When I first head this version I had NO idea it was Ciara. This is how she should sing. This was amazing.

goes without saying but ciara did a phenomenon job covering this masterpiece !

I have goosebumps & chills, I didn't know her voice could sound so good!

Beautiful rendition. Very captivating and sultry.

Love the original. The sequel - Brilliant! Chills! This woman’s voice!

this song sounds so magical and hypnotizing

I desperately want great female singers like this to start singing more rock songs.

she did a beautiful cover to this, if there was such a thing as dark rnb like this i'd actually listen to it

Whdn i saw Anne was the choreographer and wanted these ladies hit their marks with perfect theatrics and use if props (the cap) and their formations.... such a great compliment to Ciaras cover. 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Kudos to all involved , the production is incredible and she really took a classic song and made it her own . Amazing cover for real

I absolutely love this cover. He lower register is so seductive and sultry. I love the dark quality and intensity of this video. She will always be my queen

LOVE THIS SONG, it got me on the first chorus I hope she makes a video for it.

I have this on repeat in 2023🖤 back again in 2024😎

Love this cover, love the 2 acoustic covers from WestWorld too. It may not be to everyone’s taste and no it’s not “better” than the original, but it’s equally as good in its own way.

This gave me chills the whole way through, it's incredible!