EmmaBee September 4th, 2009 04:58PM  

Coldplay is all about interpretation. Nonetheless:
To me this song, as most of coldplay's stuff, relates to a relationship or something in your life. It's dealing with someone else's letting you down.
"And the hardest part
Was letting go not taking part" Basically meaning the hardest part was talking yourself out of the relationship instead of taking a chance on it no matter what that chance could've cost or how must it would've hurt you. The bell, to me, refers to a wrestling bell. As in the hardest part was waiting for the bell to ring and the hurt to start "that was the strangest start"
Then the chorus: I could feel it the moment I met you that there was something and I could taste it the moment it went bad. I found myself looking for a silver lining but I don't know how to fix this and plain and simply "I wish that I could work this out." Then the second verse kinda refers to how when you can't fix or have something you never had it really breaks you and you don't know what to do. The song writer's way of coping is usually singing...but this time he can't find anything to sing/say/do that works. Then sort of asking himself how did it all happen "what it's all about" like why didn't this work? Why can't I figure it out? Then basically realizing the hardest part really is the fact that he can't do anything to change the situation so that he could've be chosen or chosen the relationship. He learned when he was young relationships could be fixed and people changed and now everything he knows is wrong and the world is upside down and all that he's tried to do has come undone...he then decides THAT is actually the hardest part...not being able to do/have done anything about it. Not being able to be happy in a relationship because that's just how it was and there really was nothing he could do to change that...he's helpless and that's "the hardest part". KAy, done. :P