Coldplay – Everglow

General CommentIt's about someone who's left your life, but you didn't want them to go. It's simple, but it's heartbreaking, and also hopeful, since though they left, the person left a light in him that will always glow. That light could be reassuring words that person told him or just the memory of them in general. Remembering them will help him in times of pain and darkness, which he's thankful for, but the sense of longing reappears at the end with, "So if you love someone, you should let them know," implying that it's better to cherish someone while they're with you now than to only have their memory to hold. To me, this is a more lighthearted parallel of 'O' from Ghost Stories. Very tugging on the heart.

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  @Toonlink13

General CommentLyrics are wrong. Correct lyrics:

oh they say people come, say people go
this particular diamond was extra special
and though you might be gone, and the world may not know
still I see you, celestial

like a lion you ran, a goddess you rolled
like an eagle you circled, in perfect purple
so how come things move on, how come cars don’t slow
when it feels like the end of my world
when I should but I can’t let you go?

but when I’m cold, cold
oh when I’m cold, cold
there’s a light that you give me when I’m in shadow
there’s a feeling you give me, an everglow

like brothers in blood, sisters who ride
and we swore on that night we’d be friends til we die
but the changing of winds, and the way waters flow
life as short as the falling of snow
and now I’m gonna miss you I know

but when I’m cold, cold
in water rolled, salt
I know that you’re with me and the way you will show
and you’re with me wherever I go
and you give me this feeling this everglow

oh- I I I I
what I wouldn’t give for just a moment to hold
yeah I live for this feeling this everglow

so if you love someone, you should let them know
oh the light that you left me will everglow

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  @Lucabrando

General CommentIt takes an incredibly talented musician to write a song and it have the ability to be interpreted so many different ways. It's absolutely AMAZING.

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  @BonnieT

General CommentChris Martin has always had a continuous theme in his music: flight. Well, it seems to have really begun in 2008 with the album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends and the line "Now my feet won't touch the ground" used in two songs and the title of one of them. From that time on, flight was his thing. Again in 2011 with the release of their 5th studio album "Mylo Xyloto", he again referenced flight. Such songs as "Up With The Birds", "Us Against The World" (with the lyric "and if we could float away, fly up to the surface and just start again, lift off before trouble just erodes us in the rain"), and "U.F.O."

Again in 2014 with the release of "Ghost Stories", a short album released just shortly after his divorce to now ex wife Gwenyth Paltrow with whom he has two children, the theme of flight continued still. Most notably in the very last song on the album, titled "O (Fly On)" the lyrics "A flock of birds hovering above, just a flock of birds, is how you think of love? Still I always look up to the sky and pray before the dawn, 'cause they fly always, sometimes they arrive, sometimes they are gone, they fly on." the birds of course as previously stated being a symbol of love, and the art for this album and even a music video ("Magic") have doves, a common symbol of love since the Greeks gods and the dove's affiliation with Aphrodite, goddess of love.

Again with the release of A Head Full Of Dreams, released early December of 2015, the theme of birds and flight was present, along with Diamonds. Second song on the album titled "Birds" with more lyrics about flight, and diamond, a stone formed under pressure.

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  @BonnieT