| Coldplay – A Spell a Rebel Yell Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The posters up there weren't saying "this is what the song means to me," etc: which would be perfectly understandable. They were actually saying "This song is obviously about the Iraq war." My point is that there are OTHER WARS in the world, not the only war (despite how horrible it is) that certain Americans seem to give recognition to. You see what I mean? |
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| Coldplay – Ode to Deodorant Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This was one of their first demos - before they became famous. They were basically a couple of schoolboys messing around when they recorded this song. :) | |
| Mew – Swimmer's Chant Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with YYYY; I think "I lean over" is actually "I know this". Wow. I love this song; it's really catchy, especially the part where he sings "there is water inside your heart". That one line gets in my head so easily and I'll be singing it over and over all day. Dx Those last lines are really sad, and really sum up how I feel a lot of the time. "Forgot to be strong. Aching to shout; it wears me out." Just wanting to scream out things that need to be said, but not having enough courage or confidence to do so is just a horrible feeling. :[. That makes this song mean a lot to me despite not knowing the entire meaning; just certain lyrics stand out which can piece together the feel of the song. I think it's just about someone who had things to say; but couldn't quite get them out right, or the other person took them the wrong way and now he knows he screwed up. I think it's just a regretful, longing song. Pretty. <3 |
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| Mew – A Dark Design Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Interpretations here are good in their own ways, but my personal interpretation is that this song is a narrative about the narrator's journey with this girl. I think he absolutely despises her, as she uses other people (or perhaps just men) for her own gain or pleasure. But then the narrator decides to get his revenge on her... but then realises that he has just become just like her. I'll explain using the lyrics: "Hi, I'm twice coloured." I think this imagery involves imagining people's personalities as colours. Good virtues and morals are white, jealous individuals are red, and black is the colour of evil or hate. There is a reference to this in the last verse: "Hi, I'm twice coloured. I made a truce with the blackness dyer." - Dying yourself black; becoming evil. So she is twice coloured - appears to be the colour of white, but her soul is really black. "Wait 'til you see, They're in love with my sickness." Perhaps she is sick in the head, or just crazy, but she has this twisted pleasure out of how she can manipulate men. I think this girl is just twisted and ill, and the rest of this verse is a mixture of her thoughts and the narrator's commentary: "There is no more time for the weaklings with an unfamiliar smile." - girl (referencing to how she throws away those who she doesn't know or care about.) "A self destructive mind of dark design." - narrator talking about the girl. "We may just live through life, watching it from sweet repose cut out with knives." - girl. I think this is further description of how sick she is, and that she mutilates herself out of this sickness and the narrator despises her for it. And I think suddenly in the song there is a shift. The narrator begins talking about his plan to take away the power she has over people and learn a lesson: "Opens up her face To the delight of their red piercing beaks. It didn't hurt this time. MY dark design." I capitalised "MY" because I think the narrator is saying how he has turned all the men/people against her... his dark design. "Slits into her, all convinced That she's (still) their favourite way." She then begins to self harm to make herself feel better as she is delusional, refusing to believe that these people have turned against her. She still hopes she's their favourite person. I think the next verse is a realisation of the narrator; he realises he has become just as sick and twisted as the girl he despises. "So, hi. I'M twice coloured. Wait 'til you see - I made a truce with the blackness dyer." I think that is the narrator saying this, admitting that he now knows his soul is black, and he thinks he is now the evil one. "I feel so carsick and alone." And he is repulsed with himself. That's my opinion. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it and thought I needed to write my interpretation somewhere. :P |
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| Coldplay – Poppyfields Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yes, dramaelf - this song I believe refers to WWI as well. It is clearly about war, in my opinion... "Drums... here it comes. Don't you wish that life could be as simple As fish swimming around in a barrel When you've got the gun?" 'Drums, here it comes' is showing the start of the war... soldiers would often hear the sound of drums when preparing to race out and attempt to invade enemy trenches. These lines clearly refer to the feelings of soldiers when they're carrying a gun, about to end another life and enter a warzone... frightened beyond belief... This song is so emotional, and the lyrics are breathtaking. Each time I listen to this song it really pulls at my heartstrings, as the title 'Poppyfields' (the short instrumental afterwards) I believe refers to the poppies that grew in the battlefields of Gallipoli in WWI, after the tragic ANZAC campaign. Of course, it may not be explicitly about the Gallipoli invasion - it's probably just about war in general, but that is just how I personally interpret the song and it holds a very special meaning to me. "Here I lie, On my own, in a separate sky" These lines really tug at my heartstrings. The way Chris sings them is so... heartfelt and beautiful. I believe they are from the viewpoint of a soldier in the middle of the battlefield, just at peace by himself amongst the horrible chaos and hell that is happening around him. "I don't want to die On my own, here tonight." Self explanatory... but so desolate and sad. The soldier doesn't want to die... away from his family, in a war he has no control over. The song is particularly sad because the entry of Poppyfields seems to imply an unsettling peace washing over the song... as though the soldier has, in fact, moved on and found peace elsewhere. |
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| Coldplay – A Ghost Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Gorgeous song. The lyrics don't make much sense - in a literal sense, it could be about someone who is deluded into thinking he is in love with a ghost! But the ghost could be a metaphor for someone who chooses to isolate themselves from others, so everyone else says they are untrustworthy or not likeable. And now that he loves her, people think that of him as well? Hmm. Just an interpretation. :) | |
| Coldplay – Murder Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow. This song is just the epitome of paranoia! By the way, these lyrics are wrong, these are the correct ones taken from coldplay.com: Murder coming to get us Yeah coming to get us and away we hide Murder, see it all around us See it all around us And away we hide Murder coming to get us They're coming to get us And away we hide Away we hide Tie me to a tree Tie my hands above my head Sing a song to me Sing a song like what you said And they're gonna murder me They're gonna take me down Even before I sleep I cry murder Come spit at us Come and throw your weight around Come and fight with us Try and knock us to the ground 'Cause they're gonna murder me They're gonna take me down Even before I sleep I scream murder Murder Oh now what can it possibly gain? Oh what can it possibly gain? Oh now what can it possibly gain? Oh yeah what can it possibly gain? Cry murder, murder I cry murder Murder I'm coming to get us I'm coming to get us And away we hide Murder, see it all around us See it all around us And away we hide Murder coming to get us It's coming to get us And away we hide Murder, see it all around you See it all around you And away we hide |
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| Coldplay – Bloodless Revolution Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The lyrcs are definitely 'clear your head'. It just makes sense, and also rhymes with the rest of the song. So, yeah. Fabulous leaked song! They're a little self explanatory, really. I think that's why this demo never got followed through - the lyrics were too precise about the certain issue of war. The first lyric says it all: "People wanna fight for fun But what is a battle when the war's already been won?" Why are people fighting? Why do we continue to have conflict in the world? I think 'bloodless revolution' means the writer wants to have a revolution (make a change, stand up for what's right) without any violence. The singer may be talking to a soldier who had been fighting in a war, and was traumatised by the whole ideal? Not sure. Could explain the chorus though. ^^ |
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| Coldplay – Ode to Deodorant Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've got this on my iPod. Amazingly, it's actually a really catchy song with a brilliant guitar riff! I'm surprised that they wasted such mediocre lyrics on a song with such potential! Chris often said they drew inspiration from objects around them in the studio in their early recording days when they couldn't think of anything (Yellow from a yellow pages book), so I'm guessing this song is an outcome of a deodorant can lying around somewhere? :P |
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| Coldplay – Your Love Means Everything Pt. 2 (feat. Faultline) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow. These lyrics are gorgeous. By the way, it's Faultline featuring Chris Martin, not Coldplay featuring Faultline. :P Anyway, back to the lyrics. They are gorgeous. As soon as I heard it, that first line "I slipped away last night" immediately drew me in and I was instantly in love and emotionally in sync with this song. There's something about Chris Martin's voice that can make you swoon, think about and just be completely sucked into the song. I don't think it's about physical violence per se, I think a lot of the descriptions of injures ("broken arm", "the punch I threw") are all metaphors for someone emotionally wounding someone. And the song is kind of a confession, reflection and plea for forgiveness for the narrator, knowing that they had done something so very wrong in emotionally hurting someone they love. Just my take on the song. |
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| Coldplay – The World Turned Upside Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Gorgeous song! One of my all-time favourites, actually. Fun fact: the line after: 'X is Y The land, sea, rivers, trees, the stars, the sky 365 Degrees All of the surface and the underneath' Is actually not known! The lyrics seem so hard to understand, and sound like gibberish - and chances are, they are! The Oracle on Coldplay.com states that the band actually have no idea what Chris says there, as that was a period where Chris would change the lyrics to the songs all the time while recording, and can't remember what he said! I think that's too cute. |
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| Coldplay – Death Will Never Conquer Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I find this is VERY similar to Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground, lyrics-wise. Anyone else think this could have been an earlier/alternative version of it? | |
| Coldplay – A Spell a Rebel Yell Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Okay, I really feel the need to say this. Why is it that everyone assumes that this *must* be about the Iraq war? Just because it gives implications about being about a war doesn't necessarily mean it is referencing to the Iraq war! Your shallow, self-centred American minds really don't understand that there are literally dozens of other wars in the world. I think it is giving a political message about war - but not one particular one. Just the horrible thing that is war in general. | |
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