anonymous May 5th, 2008 02:47PM  

I think it's about a person who wants to say "excuse me" to somebody. I think it's a very close person, probably even a family member. He winds in his arguments, shown with the picture of the spider web he can't escape. He is very sorry about what he did and is helpless with his feelings.

lost1213 June 8th, 2009 10:49AM  

The beauty of Coldplay's songs lies in the fact that it's too personal it may have a different meaning for anyone. It depends on who listens to it. The first time I heard it I was falling for someone who do not feel the same for me. "Trouble" can be the "awkwardness" and the "embarrassment" that person felt just being the object of my affection. LOL And so I say "I never meant to cause you trouble, I never meant to do you wrong" because I must have told someone else about how I felt and then my secret became "public"

EmmaBee September 4th, 2009 05:30PM  

AGreed, that the beauty of coldplay is their songs can be interpretted in all sorts of ways depending on the individual. To me the song has always been about someone being tangled up in a web. He's thinking of how he got there(all the stupid things i've done). Anything trapped in a spider web is utterly trapped and helpless so now that he's there in the middle of it unable to run he wants to say he never meant for any of this to happen, never meant for it to end up this way, and never expected to be trapped here(in the web). Then the last part has two meanings to me: 1) By ever coming across this person's path they've helped create the web he's now trapped in. 2) They had it all planned out and put him in situations where he'd have to lie and get tangled and now that he's there and helpless he basically is saying how he never meant to hurt them or do them wrong and he's sorry if he did and that's why they've "spun a web" for him to become trapped in. Maybe an admittion that he didn't mean to, but he perhaps did and he's sorry and now all he can do is observe his trapped self.