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Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head Song Meanings

A Rush Of Blood To The Head is about a man who has lost the love of his life to death, in an unexplainable situation. He then burns down the house in which they must have spend a lot of time in and held good memories of them together, but he wants to get rid of it, because it brings too much pain to him.

This song is devided into two stories, which adds up together in the choures. So if you think you can keep up, plz read futher...

Also, the one story is told in reverse. You should read the lyrics as follow: 1; 3; 5 ; 7... Chis starts off with:

"He said I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down"

He plans on buying the house him& his loved one spend their happy days together in.The 3rd,5th& 7th line continues with this story:

"He said I'm gonna buy this place and watch it fall"/"Oh I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire"/"Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn" (When something gets burned, it becomes unreconizable & later there is nothing left but dust).

Now, at the end of the song, he is asking his love's spirit or goast to meet him and watch him destroy the sad memories he wants to run away from, after the death of his love:

"So meet me by the bridge, meet me by the lane"/"Meet me on the road, meet me where I said".

After her death, he also wants someone to blame for his loss, so he says: "He said Oh I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war"(Start a war against the world for being unfair towards him).

The second story follow in the 2nd, 4th 6th line, BUT IN REVERSE!! This is the situation his love is at that very moment, in her grave in a cemetary. So start at:

"Blame it all upon"/"When am I gonna see that pretty face again"(He is never going to see her again)/"As you mean to go on, as you mean to go on"(She moves on to a better place, but still away from him).

This continues till the begining lines of the song:

"Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head"(The doctors doesn't know the cause of her death)/"If you can tell me something worth fighting for"(He doesn't see reason in living a life without his love)/"But you just sit down then you wonder why"(Why was she taken away from him??)/"Stand here beside me baby watch the orange glow"(the oranje glow can revere to the sunset, a simbole for the end of something)/"And do back the things they did to you in return"(He wants to blame someone for taking her from him)/"Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires"(Spend a lot of time at her grave)/"Stand here beside me baby in the crumbling walls"(The walls of her grave consists out of ground,which colapeses on her tomb once she is layed in the ground)/"I'm gonna put it six feet underground"(Her casket,along with the memories he is forced to).

The reason why it is in reverse, is because when someone is burried underground, it is final and the is no escape.

In the chouses,he reconises his pain and describes his feelings of not being hole, without his love: "(And) honey
All the movements you're starting to make
See me crumble and fall on my face
And I know the mistakes that I made
See it all disappear without a trace
And they call as they beckon you on
They say start as you mean to go on".

Submitted by: emo
Added: 2007-08-09 05:40:15     Rating:

A man with his relationship falling apart,that there's a lot things going through his head and cannot cope up with the situation anymore in the point that he wanted to end his life. He is trying to keep the suicidal ideation a secret so that if she found out that he dies she's gonna feel guilty, hurt and weep for the loss. He thinks, if she found out about the ideation she'll try to stop him. He's trying to say his goodbyes and sorry for all the misery he did. And he knows that they'll see each other on life after death.

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