Coldplay - In My Place Song Meanings
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anonymous
June 12th, 2008 08:06PM
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First off I'd just like to say it's crazy how the same song speaks so differently to people. I completely see the validity in how the above users interpreted this, but what I get from this song relates to my personal experience which is very different from the others.
In my place in my place were lines that I couldn't change:
He is singing about a guy who is in love with a girl who just got her heart broken by someone else... She is so use to doing things her own way with her former lover that he feels like the replacement.
I was lost, I was lost, crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed:
He is getting weary waiting for her to get over him, and perhaps makes a mistake, or says something that he shouldn't have.
Yeah, how long must you wait for him? 3x:
He is trying so hard to have her love him in return, but she's still consumed with her past relationship...
I was scared I was scared, tired and underprepared, but I'll wait for you:
He isn't sure whether she'll ever come around, he went into this relationship not expecting so much baggage from her, but he loves her enough to stick around, he just doesn't know how long that may be.
If you go if you go, leaving me here on my own I will wait for you:
He is already so far in love with her that the only thing he can do is wait for her to come around, even if she goes back to him, to fix things, or just get closure, his heart is paralyzed from her, the only thing he can do is wait.
please please please come on and sing to me, to me to me:
Although there's nothing he can do but wait, he is desperately hoping that she will choose him, sing to me -- as in be with me, love me.
come on and sing it out, now 3x:
He is anxiously waiting for her to move on from the last guy and pick him.
anonymous
January 10th, 2006 11:42AM
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The song is about a lost love. An impossible love which he waits for..."how long must you wait for it?"
He falls in love with the wrong girl and is "lost and underprepared". He gave everything to her and she basically destroyed him. It's a song of hurt and loss.
anonymous
April 26th, 2008 08:45AM
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I kind of see it as a past were he made mistakes, was lost and just generally went down the wrong tack.i think we've all been there or are.
anonymous
November 8th, 2008 12:38PM
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i believe this song is about him trying to get inspiration to write a song for a girl.
"in my place, in my place"
(in my frame of mind)
"were lines i couldnt change, i was lost oh yeah"
(were lines of lyrics that he couldn't leave out or change)
"i was lost, i was lost, crossed lines i shouldn't have crossed"
(he crossed out lines of the song that he shoulda kept)
"how long must she wait for"
(how long does she have to wait for the song)
(and the song continues)
"sing to me sing to me"
(give me more inspiration for the song)
anonymous
November 9th, 2008 12:00AM
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This song is about first impressions.
In my place, in my place, were lines that I couldn't change:
It's very hard to change first impressions
How long must I wait/pay for it:
He will do anything to change his first impression
sallycanjump
February 4th, 2009 12:23AM
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The man is in love with his best friends girl
anonymous
February 14th, 2009 09:22PM
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To me "in my place" refers to a person being put in their place by their partner after the person had tried to change part of their partner, beit personality, way of thinking or whatever. This is by reference of "lines that I couldn't change".
After contemplation of why the person tried to change a part their partner, the person realised that they shouldnt have done it, that the person was "lost" and realised what they did was wrong by crossing "lines I shouldn't have crossed".
The person is now asking how long must you wait for forgiveness, how long must you pay for forgiveness?
Being scared, tired and underprepared is the fear of a person realising what they have done wrong and not being really ready to accept the consequenses of their actions,b ut in saying that the person will wait for partner's forgiveness; "but I'll wait for it".
And if the partner "leave(s) me(the person) down here on my own", the person will still wait for their partners forgiveness.
The person is then begging out for their partner to sing out forgiveness. Come on and sing it out... to me, me
Come back and sing it.
Thats my interpretation. Its funny how you can love a song for so long (like years) and have no friggen idea what the song means until you sit down and try to decifer the lyrics.
kywildkatt
September 19th, 2009 02:36PM
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Wow I'm really shocked no one has said this yet but for me personally it's about God. In my place, I was lost. (He was a sinner)How long must you wait for it or him (I've heard and read both ways) Him is God/Jesus. I was scared, tired and unprepared (not yet saved) but I'll wait for him. If you go leave me DOWN here on my own I'll wait for you. (Saying if he is unprepared when Jesus returned and leaves him here he will still be faithful) come back and sing to me. (he's asking to be saved for Jesus to come back for him and save him.)
anonymous
October 4th, 2009 09:50PM
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I interpretated this song differently. I saw this from a girl's point a view. As in my guy friend and I had crossed the line and we cannot go back to how it was before. That I'm lost now. And I'm waiting on him to come back to me. Basically I saw this from a girl's view.
anonymous
October 27th, 2009 03:27AM
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I've always felt this song is actually a personal experience for Chris Martin, I believe he's singing to/for Gwyneth Paltrow, and the "him" (wait for him, pay for him) is Brad Pitt. Paltrow and Pitt dated from 94-97 and In My Place apparently was written around 2000-2001. Certainly Martin as a interested party would have seen any lingering feelings Pa;trow had for Pitt as an obstacle to his own interest in her. This song would seem to portray those obstacles, being tired and underprepared and so forth. Following Pitt as a love interest must not have seemed an easy chore. I've always seen this song as an overture from an interested boy to a girl he liked.
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