| Coldplay – Viva la Vida Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about a king who lost his power because of a revolution, but the painting Coldplay used for the cover for the album that has this song was offered to King Louis-Phillipe, who conversely won his kingship through a revolution. Interesting... |
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| Coldplay – Viva la Vida Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay, I think we all get what the song is about, but what exactly does it allude to? Most likely not to some king from the old ages and his dramatic rise and fall or some event like Napolean's revolt against King Whatshisface IXVIXIIXVIXIXIVXI, Come on, Coldplay seems to be a band that writes songs that cohere more to the current times. Faeriefirefly actually made a good connection with this song and the Republican Party in the US, even if the lyrics of the song might exaggerate it a bit (obviously Bush is no king in regards to his mannerisms.) Plus the part where it goes "never an honest word" could hint to the lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction for being the reason for attacking the Middle East |
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| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My guess is that this song points out how life always gets tougher for all of us as we progress in time, sometimes to the point where we want to go back to the start when everything was easy. The name of the song being "The Scientist" could be a foil to the idea behind it, being that scientists are the ones who help us progress and become more and more advanced as time goes by, but these advancements also make our lives a little more complicated. You can disagree with my guess and come up with your own thoughts, but that's what makes Coldplay great; their songs are open to everyone's personal interpretations and analyses. |
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| Coldplay – Viva la Vida Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In the basic picture, I think we can all agree that it was a king who lost his kingdom. My interpretation, though, is that the king who lost his kingdom gained it by overthrowing a previous kingdom in the first place; the lines "it was the wicked and wild wind blew downs the doors to let me in" mean that the wicked and wild winds, or the revolt against the old king as what "blew down the doors to let him in," or rose him to power. Then, in the lines "shattered windows and the sound of drums, people couldn't believe what I'd become" suggest that he eventually gave into complacency, which caused his people to be shocked by what he became: a lazy king who was eventually backstabbed for becoming complacent, implied by the lines "one minute I held the key, next the walls were closed on me." The chorus is implies that while he was a Christian (illustrated by the Christian references) he dishonorably gained his power by overhtrowing the previous king, and his loss of his own power as king was what his retribution for committing an act that was morally unacceptable by his religious standards. |
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