Coldplay - The Scientist Song Meanings
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Lyrics:
Come up to meet you,
Tell you I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are.
I had to find you,
Tell you I need you,
Tell...
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anonymous
November 6th, 2006 03:05PM
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Everything is open to interpretation-it's personal. For me it has two meanings. The first is the lyrics about love and the breakup of a relationship with a girlfriend. The second meaning for me is very difficult to listen to at times. It has to do with the relationship I had with my mother. The last night when the doctor told my father and I that she would die in an hour maybe five hours (they were keeping her alive with drugs-she had a d.N.R.- her sickly body was so frail that cpr would not be possible anyway). I would walk out to the car and listen to a rush of blood to the head. Then when I felt strong enough I would go back to her room. I was in my late twenties when I had a severe problem with substance abuse. This took it's toll on my mother. Mentally, physically, financially and monetarily."running in cirles." "coming back as we were." my repeated attempts to drink like a normal person(not to mention drugs) "nobody said it was easy." trying to get back the healthy adult relationship we had. And most of all watching her take her last breath and dealing with her death. "i'm going back to the start." wishing things could go back to the way they were before the damage I caused-that she chose to endure due to unconditional love. "tell you I'm sorry." I never got the chance. " come back to haunt me." regret, remorse about what I could not change before she died. "tell me you love me." when I didn't feel I deserved it she randomly said: "I love you." shocking to me but wonderful at the same time-knowing she had forgiven me. Thats a gift that keeps me going during hard times. "you don't know how lovely you are." she was a rare slice. I have not met many people as special as she was. She was an amazing human being. One who will always be greatly missed. I could go on but I think you get the general idea.
jimjam
September 28th, 2005 04:58AM
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The Scientist is about neglecting their relationship, and when it finishes, he realises his errors, and instantly wants to go back to it again. "Running in circles, chasing our tails" "come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry"
etc...
anonymous
October 30th, 2005 01:42PM
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I think this is about a guy whose girlfriend just broke up with him. He doesn't understand why, trying to analyze what went wrong, looking at it rationally like a scientist. "I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart."
Migduh
December 25th, 2005 08:16PM
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Well, I think that the singer has just gone through a terrible break-up that has left him somewhat baffled. So now, he is trying to figure out what exactly he did or didn't do and that he wants to tell his ex(?) that he is deeply sorry and would like to make up.
And uh, that's. . .well there you have it.
Cruelwinter
January 9th, 2006 08:12AM
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He finally understands what has gone wrong. He has deeply examined what the relationship and the girl meen to him. He was running in circles about what he thought was important but was wrong. In the end what is really important is pure honesty. Its sounds chessy, but if you listen close to the song, its full of hurt and he clues into to two simple facts: Love is worth any sacrifice and real love is a puzzle no one can solve completly. He feels like a sicentist trying to figure and sort things out one block at a time.....but no one can take it apart because it just dosent work that way......."Take me back to the start" Why? because Love is not something you can totally understand......
anonymous
March 14th, 2006 04:41AM
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Yeah I read it in the liner notes too, so who's Dan and what does that mean?
anyway this song is definitely about lost love and regret and trying to scientifically look at things that aren't concrete, like love, and I know people to too often try to be rational with everything instead of accepting the unexplainable. You can list reasons why you love someone, but put those exact characteristics into someone else and it's not the same. you can't quantify love.
anonymous
July 7th, 2006 03:03AM
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This song's about the one you fancy being on your mind, no matter what your doing, the one you fancy will always be put first. This interpretation is actually true, I read on Wikipedia said by Chris Martin himself.
angela20
July 17th, 2006 12:43AM
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Haha alright here's the deal. It is not about fancying someone or about a scientist. The song is about a break up or losing someone you loves and the singer is trying to use science and reason to figure out what went wrong. But even that doesn't make sense to him. The line "take me back to the start" is the singer saying that he wants take things back to the very begining of the relationship when everything was okay.
anonymous
November 12th, 2006 12:36AM
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I concur with those who say that it's about a break up.
"nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard. Oh take me back to the start."
basically saying that there was no easy path through their relationship. And that he wants to get back together with her. ( thus: "oh take me back to the start" )
tell me you love me
come back and haunt me
^ again, implies the fact that he wants someone back.
Pretty much about a break up...And as the others say, he's the "scientist" trying to figure out what went wrong, what's on her mind, and how they could maybe reunite.
anonymous
November 30th, 2006 02:08PM
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i think tis song is about someone who had his relationship ended by his gf, and she's like a dying figure in her head because her character in his image is disappearing. He tried to rationalize the matter and tried to figure the problem but he cant. all he knows his heart is pained. He begged the girl to begin the relationship all over from the start.
anonymous
December 25th, 2006 01:17AM
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i dunno what chris wanted it to mean or the reason why he wrote the song, but I suppose it could mean many things. It all depends on your point of view.
to me, this song came to mean something I could relate to on the last day of school because the guy I liked was moving to another town and maybe I'd never c him again. I had never really gotten to know him because we didn't talk much n sometimes you sorta feel like it's your fault and all. Because we didn't talk much, all I knew about him I had obtained by just looking at him and guessing or what I heard about him.
If you consider all of these facts, the song makes sense:
"Come up to meet you, Tell you I’m sorry, You don’t know how lovely you are" (the feeling guilty for doing something wrong part n how you wanna let him know that you love him)
"Tell me your secrets, And ask me your questions, Aww let’s go back to the start" (wanna get to know the guy and how you wish you could go back to the start to do this because now it's too late because he's leaving)
"I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart." (this is about the not knowing him and just guessing by what you saw part)
"Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart." (This is about how time already went by and that's just the way time works, it can't be stopped and it can't be rewound and science is not able to turn back time but your heart is by memories)
The rest I think you can relate to pretty well
wow ..i wrote a lot
anonymous
January 13th, 2007 11:52PM
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I think that this song can relate to one of my personal experiences. Several years ago, I dated this girl who was in my class for about a year or so. I always rarely did anything with her, even though I loved her a lot. To sum up my relationship, I took her for granted. I didn't realise how much she meant to me until I had to move away from the city where we lived in. I was totally devastated, whenever I listen to this song, I always think of her and our estranged relationship, wishing I could "go back to the start"
anonymous
January 17th, 2007 06:04PM
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I think that this song can be used a few ways. I just lost my daughter recently, she was a still born baby. And I feel that this song works perfectly for the situation I have been through. Especially the part about "Questions of science, science and progress, they don't speak as loud as my heart." Because I have been given statistics about how often this happens and rationalizations, but none of it has "spoken as loud" as the feelings in my heart.
I think that this song can be used for the sudden breaking up of a relationship, especially through death, and the singer trying to use logic to define his feelings which are all confused and mixed up.
anonymous
March 10th, 2007 12:43PM
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A scientist is a different man... That's it, a different man. A man who can thinks very hard and during a long time, maybe during his entire life. A man who can explain what he feels, and who is able to feel many things in a same time.
I saw me in this song. I can't. Coldplay is a scientist group because they have understand the life. And when you understand the life like they have did... You're a scientist. You're finished, mutilated by the differents ways you think, but you can't stop to think. I'm so sad.
anonymous
March 10th, 2007 12:50PM
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Sorry still me (the scientist), I just guess :
"Come up to meet you, Tell you I’m sorry, You don’t know how lovely you are" (sure, it's about a girl firstly, but it's for the scientist too, the different man so alone in the world, he wants to meet one, and say that he's sorry for him because he was apart of this world)
"Tell me your secrets, And ask me your questions, Aww let’s go back to the start" (sure it's for a girl, he wants to know her, but it's for the scientist, he want's to know how he lives like that, "secrets", he want's to know all of him (the sentimental alone different man) from the start to the end.).
"I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart." (Sure it's about a girl, but it's too about the scientist, he wants to know if he really knows all of the world, of the life, "numbers and figures" : all these things the other can't know and understand).
"Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart." (He's out of the course.).
anonymous
March 14th, 2007 12:52PM
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This song is about losing someone close to you....what the singer is trying to say is that he is basically trying to see the scientific aspect of why things went wrong but nothing adds up...he wants to start fresh where everything was ok and their was no loss...."Nobody said it was easy its such a shame for us to part.....i wanna rush to the start..." I think it sums it up...
anonymous
March 19th, 2007 01:08AM
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This song is about how love is such an individual feeling. Love is not something that can be measured by a scientist or that has any sort of statistical data.
"Do not speak as loud as my heart"
Also, it has to do with how when relationships fail to succeed and the person has no idea why it didn't work. They'll pull away at all the puzzle pieces, try to analyze everything, but when it comes down to it, love can not be quantified!
When I first heard this song, I had recently broken up with a girl and I'm pretty sure I cried a little. Whatta wimp.
Keith
anonymous
March 28th, 2007 05:10PM
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So this is what I think. Obviously this is the after math of a true love relationship
The guy is trying to tell his lover that they don't know how much they really mean to them and they're truely amazing.
The guy knows he has to find his lover to tell them what he's been thinking what he's been pulling apart about them to solve his questions
he also wants to show them that they can trust him have their old talks about their secrets,aspirations etc. It reminds him of how they used to be and he misses it and yearns for this.
He keeps running in circles of confusion and questions and once he thinks he has the right answers he finds he doesn't or they just create more questions
He says "it's only science apart" indicating that love is complicated like science you may never find the right answers but only theorys
He remembers though that no one ever said love was easy
it's something you have to fight for.
That's why it's a shame for them to part by just walking away.
"I was just guessing,
At numbers and figures,
Pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science,
Science and progress,
Do not speak as loud as my heart. "
this retells us of him trying to find those why? questions.trying to pull every detail apart.to find why he feels in such a way.He relates love to science again it progresses but ultimately the thing that speaks the loudest is your heart.
he wants the lover to feel the same way that they're still deeply in love with each other so that they can rush back to the start to make things better.
he ends with a repeat of the chourus restating the things that he simply wants he cuts to the chase
anonymous
March 29th, 2007 08:41PM
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Actually, you're all wrong, about the 2nd verse anyway. The lyrics were based on a short story named "The Birthmark" By Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story is about a beautiful woman who's only flaw is a small birthmark on her cheek. She marries a scientist, who dislikes the mar on her face and, over the course of a few years, resolves to remove it. Once he finally finds a cure for the mark, his beautiful wife's birthmark fades, but when she wakes up she informs the scientist that she is dying. Hawthorne later wrote the novel "the Scarlet Letter". This song also has some ties to that book as well.
anonymous
April 23rd, 2007 05:34PM
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I personally believe that the song is about a man who has just made a major mistake and therefore caused the breaking up of he and the love of his life. He is still trying to figure out what went wrong, but is over-analyzing the situation and not necessarily relying on his gut instinct. He wants everything to go back to what it once was so that he can undo the mistakes he made and revive the relationship.
The video proves my point. Chris Martin goes backwards...back in time...to save his girlfriend/fiancee/wife/etc. from dying in a car crash.
Everyone has different opinions, and I'm sure that mine is just as worthless to all of you as the next one. Do we really have to define the song?
anonymous
May 18th, 2007 10:26PM
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I agree with most of the above interpretations, because it will mean something different to everyone.
To me, it is about losing someone in your life, and whether it is by death or not is irrelevant. It can also be either a serious relationship between a man and a woman or just a friendship.
Here is my personal experience:
Today is May 18th, and I am a sophomore in high school. The seniors at my school only have 7 days left. Recently, I have really been getting to know some of the seniors at my school. There are 4 (1 guy and 3 girls) that I have sort of become friends with through seeing them everyday in one of my classes. I have been in the same class as them all year, but I feel that I am just getting to know them now. Last night, I listened to the song and it brought me to tears. I was thinking of what it would be like on their last day; shaking each one's hand, giving them each a hug or a pat on the back, saying a few things, and watching them walk away and out of my life, possibly forever. I wish that I could "go back to the start" and get to know them better.
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