| Coldplay – Amsterdam Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song to me is about the ending of a relationship and possible suicide or the saving of a relationship and a life. Bare with me on this. The whole "if I only waited, I'd not be stuck here in this hole" is about a person moving a little too quickly then the other wants to and now they are seperated. The "my star is fading" is that person's significant other trying to distant themself from him (the sun is a star, planets revolve around it, she is his sun, he revolves around her) "time is on your side" is time is working with him now. He no longer feels the pressure of having to move faster and that now only time can help/heal things for him, as opposed to making him worry if he should speed things up. "I see no chance of release, and I know I'm dead on the surface, but I am screaming underneath" could be him realizing that she is not going to come back to him (no chance of release) and that even though he may not be reaching out for her, he is dying to try and talk to her (dead on the surface, but screaming underneath) He is now becoming suicidal about it and realizes that time is on his side because he no longer has to worry about this problem anymore, because he is going to commit suicide (time is one your side line verse is repeated) "Stuck on the end, of this ball and chain, and I'm on my way back down again" is him confirming that he is in a problem he can't get out of and that he is going to commit suicide. "Stood on the edge, Tied to the noose, Sick to the stomach" is him about to commit suicide on the edge of something and he's either having second thoughts about it or he's made up his mind that he is going to do it and it bothers him it had to come to this (sick to the stomach) "You can say what you mean, But it won't change a thing, I'm sick of the secrets" is the girl finding him in the process of trying to commit suicide and trying to talk him out of it, but he decides anyway that he's going to do it. "Stood on the edge, Tied to the noose, But you came along and you cut me loose" is the line where Coldplay and Chris Martin really make you think. "You came along and you cut me loose" is a little vague. Did she come along and cut him loose, saving his life, or did she come along and cut him loose, sending him off the edge and finishing his suicide? I relate back to the very beginning of the song where you hear that "ping" That to me sounds like a radar ping that you hear a submarine send out underwater, which draws up a visual for me of his body floating underwater to the bottom, meaning that she cut him loose over the edge, committing suicide. I could also be completely off track on this, but that's just what I get out of the song |
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