What do you think Paint Me A Birmingham means?

Tracy Lawrence: Paint Me A Birmingham Meaning

Album cover for Paint Me A Birmingham album cover

Song Released: 2003


Paint Me A Birmingham Lyrics

He was sittin’ there, his brush in hand
Paintin’ waves as they danced, upon the sand
With every stroke, he brought to life
The deep blue of the ocean, against the mornin’ sky
I asked him if he only painted ocean scenes
He said for twenty...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jun 13th 2012 !⃝

    Birmingham is a Cadillac u idiots. That's y he says make it look just the way I planned

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  2. anonymous
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     Apr 13th 2012 !⃝

    Birmingham Painting is a company that is established that paints home to look like new. They were first established during the depression and is still going strong today. They use the finest in paint products and offer the best quality service.......

    The narrator describes an encounter on the beach with an artist who is painting ocean scenes. The singer then asks the painter to paint a picture of the plans that the man and his lost lover had actually made:
    "Paint me a Birmingham
    Make it look just the way I planned
    A little house on the edge of town
    Porch goin' all the way around
    Put her there in the front yard swing
    Cotton dress, make it early spring
    For awhile she'll be mine again
    If you can paint me a Birmingham."

  3. anonymous
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     Dec 19th 2011 !⃝

    I looked it up and a birmingham is not a type of painting but a type of house.

  4. anonymous
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     Aug 3rd 2011 !⃝

    i thought it was a type of painting but it makes since that its a place i also think some people talking about r getting a little to personally when hearing someone elses openan

  5. anonymous
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     Mar 19th 2011 !⃝

    You know most big cities can be described as dirty and poor and not just those in the South.

    I know Birmingham ,Al can be described as uncultured (Having lived here for 35 years), but that is the way we like it.

  6. suze649
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     Mar 13th 2011 !⃝

    The meaning of the song is so simple I am enjoying reading some of the interpretations. "A Birmingham is a type of painting." "Well anyone who has been to Birmingham Alabama knows he isn't talking about that uncultured city." I don't know how long ago you were there or what part you saw (it is a large town) but the meaning of the song is paint a picture of his love in Birmingham - that's right - Alabama. Just can't stand it can you! He is talking about a picture of his sweetheart from Birmingham, Alabama. Good grief!

  7. anonymous
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     Feb 9th 2011 !⃝

    I think a birmingham is a type of country house. In the song he says "paint me A birmingham" which means it is something. If it were Birmingham, Alabama he wouldn't have used A to describe it. I believe his birmingham was the house on the edge of town that had a porch going all the way around for a wrap around porch.

  8. anonymous
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     Jan 19th 2011 !⃝

    does this song really need an interpretation? Do any country songs? Don't get me wrong i love this song as i do most of Tracy, but country songs are pretty clear cut. Most of them are stories, listen to the story, you have the interpretation right?

  9. anonymous
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     Jan 19th 2011 !⃝

    Canvas of life's self-produced pain.

  10. anonymous
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     Jan 10th 2011 !⃝

    Did she die or just left him

  11. anonymous
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     Oct 8th 2010 !⃝

    I think he is talking about how the love of his life. He wants to be back in her arms again.

  12. anonymous
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     May 20th 2010 !⃝

    I heard somewhere that a Birmingham was a type of porch that wrapped completely around a house.

  13. anonymous
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     Feb 16th 2010 !⃝

    Yall that said Birmingham has to do with Alabama are fucked up!!!! a birmingham is a type of painting DUH!

  14. anonymous
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     Aug 30th 2009 !⃝

    Oh my god you guys, a birmingham is A PORTRAIT OF LOST LOVE!
    it's a type of painting.

  15. anonymous
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     May 9th 2009 !⃝

    yall are retarded. Birmingham Alabama!!!! It's where his woman was or is and where he wished that he was. "make it look just the way I planned, little house on the edge of town, porch going all the way around... PUT HER THERE IN THE FRONT YARD SWING" he wants to be in Birmingham Alabama with her. that's what he wants to imagine and what he wants to see in the painting.

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