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Coldplay - The Scientist Song MeaningsLyrics: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... (See the rest of these lyrics) Submitted by: jimjam Added: 2005-09-28 04:58:46 Rating:  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"
Submitted by: ~Camille~ I read somewhere online that Chris Martin (the lead singer) wrote this song for his brother who is trying to pursue his dreams of becoming a scientist. "Questions of science, science and progress." Chris' success and his brother's being at college keeps them from seeing each other.
Submitted by: ComeDown That may well have been the stupidest interpretation of a song I have seen yet! Well done.
Submitted by: anonymous 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."
Submitted by: anonymous The scientist is Dan
Submitted by: Migduh 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.
Submitted by: Cruelwinter 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......
Submitted by: anonymous Listen people: The Scientist is Dan, it says so IN THE ALBUM COVER!!SHeesh...
Submitted by: anonymous The scientist is trying to reaffirm his relationship with God, whom he has ignored in order to continue with his work.
Submitted by: anonymous Yeah I read it in the liner notes too, so who's Dan and what does that mean?
Submitted by: pompey this has actually got nothing to do with any kind of interpretation of the song....but if anyone's seen the video...you notice how everything's happening backwards but chris' lip-synching normally....that's coz wen they recorded the video he lip-synched it backwards....and wen its played backwards everything happens backwards but he's singing normally (hope that makes sense). Just thought its really cool n wanted people to know.
Submitted by: anonymous This song helped me when my cousin died is you listen to the word close enough when you have lost sumone close then you'll understand it gets you through the hard times.
Submitted by: anonymous 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.
Submitted by: anonymous If you see the video it makes so much more sense. This guy and his girlfriend are taking a drive, but they get into an accident, and the girlfriend dies. The video is played backwards so it makes sense when it says, "Take me back to the start."
Submitted by: angela20 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.
Submitted by: anonymous The song is about a relationship between a young boy and and girl that had a long distance relationship. After much thought they decided to call it off, because the dperession of not seeing eachother very often was killing them. Turns out the depression of not having eachother is even worse then being in a relationship. Theyre love is so strong he compares his feelings to science, to show how powerful it is. The boy and girl are now stuck in a grey area and are trying to fiigure out what to do.
Submitted by: anonymous I think the meaning of this song really is about an amazingly strong, past relationship between two people realising there differences. It's about the feeling of wishing to go back and do the things they had done differently. Wanting and hanging onto that urge of not going back and trying your best to move on.
Submitted by: anonymous Is it just me or did the "the song is about a relationship between a young boy and and girl that had a long distance relationship....." etc make even less sense than the thing about his brother becoming a scientist?
Submitted by: anonymous 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.
Submitted by: anonymous I concur with those who say that it's about a break up.
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