Top Rated Interpretation
2006-11-11 14:41:29
I agree with the interpretation that this song is about the inability of man to stop time from continuing...
"the lights go out and I can't be saved
tides that I tried to swim against
have brought me down upon my knees
oh I beg, I beg and plead singing "
the lights go out - death
tides that I tried to swim against - he tried to stop time, but failed..Now at his death he realizes his mistake
"cursed missed opportunities "
- things he wished he had done, but didn't because he believed he had more time
iheartmusic
2008-06-27 20:54:37
To me, this song is about death. but more specifically crossing over to the point where you stop regretting your life and find bliss in heaven. I think the music and lyrics almost contrast with each other, the music representing the bliss you find in heaven and lyrics voicing ones concerns they feel when they just realized they died or are dying. but this is only my interpretation and I think it means something different to everyone.
Heres what I think
Lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
You've put me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and please, singin'
This verse is about a man's fight to stay alive but how he just can't overcome death or time
Come out of things unsaid
Shoot, an apple off my head.
And the
Trouble that can't be named
The tiger's waiting to be tamed singin'
This is about everything unfinished in his life, the trouble that can't be named representing problems he will never even know he had and the tiger symbolizing the problems that he had that he will never be able to solve
You are
You are
These lines just represent how is life was unfinished, like saying to someone "You are ______", maybe he never got to tell someone he thought they were amazing
Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop but you now know, singin'
This is about the downward spiral into death and how time will always win the the end. Home in this line means heaven or the place where you go to die. "I could not stop but you now know" meaning I couldn't beat this but you know that now since I am dead.
Come out upon my seas,
Curse missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease, singin'
The first two lines of this verse are representative of your life flashing before your eyes when you die. you see all that you have and haven't done. The last 2 lines I think mean can I still escape death or is this who I have become and always will be?
You are, you are
You are, you are
You are, you are
these lines still represent the unfinished business
Nothing else compares.
Oh, no nothing else compares
Oh, no nothing else compares
These line connect music and lyrics because the person is just beginning to realize what a great place heaven is and that they are dead and will stay dead forever. nothing compares to their current state
You are
You are
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
these last lines could mean heaven (home) was the place he always wanted to go bu never knew it or right before he died all he wanted was to go home
and that's basically it. but what this song really means to coldplay, the people who actually wrote it, we will never know because that's the way they intended it to be.
