Below are the lyrics to the song 'Woman When I've Raised Hell', and these are the actual lyrics from his website, we have looked rom them before, but there were some mistakes and none of us really wanted to write them out. We haven't really broken the lyrics down particularly to gather a literal meaning from the song or anything, we just looked at the tone and the general themes of the song (heartbreak, loneliness and as Anna so eloquently put it, 'looking glum'), so it's more about how it sounds then how it reads. There are various reasons as to why we did this, it would be too complicated to take the entire song literally as well as it being in danger of becoming a picture book, the video needs to be slow paced in order to fit in with the song and the genre, I could go on. What we have taken from the lyrics (in a very vague manner), is that the man singing is extremely unhappy with his life and his relationship in which he is abusive to his woman because all he wants to do is drink himself to sleep every night and she won't leave him alone. The song title is 'Woman When I've Raised Hell', which could be interpreted as being a retrospective by an older man who is looking back at things in his life that he regrets, such as domestic violence for example. This can be reflected in our video by black and white film, different images and motifs that will occur and be reoccurring throughout the video (like the skulls that we have planned).
Lyrics:
Woman when I’ve raised hell, you’re gonna know it
There won’t be a shadow of doubt in your bright little mind
No pictures left hangin’ only lonely unpainted nails
Ah Honey you’ll connect those dots read the writin’ on the walls
Woman when I’ve raised hell, heaven knows you’re gonna know it
Don’t make me rule this home with the back of my hand
Just let me sit alone in this chair, my own make believe little throne
Ah Honey and collect the thoughts that’ll help me to stand
Honestly, why can’t you just let it be
And let me quietly drink myself to sleep
I said honestly, it’s not what it appears to be
But only memories that ain’t got shit to do with you
Woman when I’ve raised hell, you’re gonna know it
There won’t be a shadow of doubt in your bright little mind
No pictures left hangin’ only lonely unpainted nails
Ah Honey you’ll connect those dots read the writtin’ on the wall
Woman when I’ve raised hell, there won’t be a star left untouched in your sky
When my lightening crashes across that night
No shadows of doubt or of turnin’ in that questioning’ little mind
Just a burnin’ rekindled truth and one single agonizin’ blinding white light
Cuz honestly, Honey you are the Queen
But you had better leave or I will be forced to be King
So now quietly, without questions or screams
Just gently leave it well enough alone
Woman when I’ve raised hell, you of all people are gonna know it
There’ll be nothin’ not nailed down left unturned in this home
Then your old friend silence will creep back into this pettiest of all places
He’ll ask you again, “Which is better or for worse, livin’ with me or livin’ with all my ghosts?”
Honestly, why can’t you just let it be
And let me quietly drink myself to sleep
Honestly, it’s not what it appears to be
But only memories that ain’t got shit to do with you
Woman when I’ve raised hell, heaven knows you’re gonna know it
There won’t be a shadow of doubt in your bright little mind
No pictures left hangin’ only lonely unpainted nails
Ah Honey you’ll connect those dots read the writin’ on the walls
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