I like your train of thought illjumpforyou. I think we have to remember Coldplay's use of metaphor in much of their lyrics to come to an accurate understanding of the song.
The imagery of ghosts and witches is not likely literal, but rather a metaphor for those who are spiritually dead. They long for life and know there is something else out there, and are desperately looking for it, but in the meantime are perhaps embarrassed about the way in which they currently understand (or don't understand) God. The clue to this is that the dead only go on their search at night, they walk the streets in darkness when they can safely remain hidden, but they put this part of themselves to bed in the morning, afraid to let the light of day reveal just how vulnerable their spiritual longings make them.
The writer observes there are ghost towns in the ocean. Indeed the ocean is full of graveyards in the literal sense of sunken ships, but I think the metaphor here might be that the sheer vastness of the ocean and way that it ties the whole world together with all its billions of people represents that this is not isolated to "my own garden" or even exclusively to his own town (i.e. London), but the writer is coming to an awareness that there are countless numbers in the world feeling this same sense of death inside.
Quite a sad song, really. It does not resolve with a shred of hope of any kind, in fact ends with "there's no light over London today," as if saddened by the fact that no one is ever actually real with themselves about this hidden part of their soul as we put it to sleep in the day and only allow it to explore in the darkness of night.
So guys, I've got an actual confirmed meaning.
Cemeteries of London is actually a song about the Thames River in London.
During the Victorian era, the Thames actually was in essence a Cemetery, so many people threw themselves into the river as suicide and alongside people were often murdered with their bodies dumped in the river, it was a convenient place to dispose of people. Deaths in the river were so common that they actually had a Thames River Morgue, to house all the dread bodies that washed up from the river or were found.
So guys, I've got an actual confirmed meaning.
Cemeteries of London is actually a song about the Thames River in London.
During the Victorian era, the Thames actually was in essence a Cemetery, so many people threw themselves into the river as suicide and alongside people were often murdered with their bodies dumped in the river, it was a convenient place to dispose of people. Deaths in the river were so common that they actually had a Thames River Morgue, to house all the dread bodies that washed up from the river or were found.
"We go underneath the arches"
Is...
"We go underneath the arches"
Is also a reference to the Thames, if you've actually lived in London or rode on the river, you'll notice all the arches you have to go under at various points from bridges on the water.
"There are ghost towns in the ocean
The ocean"
Is a reference to where all the spirits end up once they have been washed down the Thames river, once they end up in the North sea.
While many people think the song isn't directly about spirits, it actually is focused on London and it's victorian past/deaths.
If anyone has actually lived in London, they will understand this song.
Yeah LSK, some of the lyrics are using historical mean for london, But my own interpretation are about someone who are technically "dead" in their mind and soul as earthenvessel stated. the word ghost and witches in the songs means that someone who are prefer darkness that wandering around the night because they are confused from what they are believe. I've been there (waking through night and sleep through days) so it's perfectly fits into me and others who are lost within the darkness. ghosttown and oceans means there are a place for those who are lost in the mass...
Yeah LSK, some of the lyrics are using historical mean for london, But my own interpretation are about someone who are technically "dead" in their mind and soul as earthenvessel stated. the word ghost and witches in the songs means that someone who are prefer darkness that wandering around the night because they are confused from what they are believe. I've been there (waking through night and sleep through days) so it's perfectly fits into me and others who are lost within the darkness. ghosttown and oceans means there are a place for those who are lost in the mass earth. I think the self explanatory lyrics are "I see god come in my garden but I don't know what he said, For my heart it wasn't open" means they can't open their heart and mind within their own problems and meanings.
I like your train of thought illjumpforyou. I think we have to remember Coldplay's use of metaphor in much of their lyrics to come to an accurate understanding of the song.
The imagery of ghosts and witches is not likely literal, but rather a metaphor for those who are spiritually dead. They long for life and know there is something else out there, and are desperately looking for it, but in the meantime are perhaps embarrassed about the way in which they currently understand (or don't understand) God. The clue to this is that the dead only go on their search at night, they walk the streets in darkness when they can safely remain hidden, but they put this part of themselves to bed in the morning, afraid to let the light of day reveal just how vulnerable their spiritual longings make them.
The writer observes there are ghost towns in the ocean. Indeed the ocean is full of graveyards in the literal sense of sunken ships, but I think the metaphor here might be that the sheer vastness of the ocean and way that it ties the whole world together with all its billions of people represents that this is not isolated to "my own garden" or even exclusively to his own town (i.e. London), but the writer is coming to an awareness that there are countless numbers in the world feeling this same sense of death inside.
Quite a sad song, really. It does not resolve with a shred of hope of any kind, in fact ends with "there's no light over London today," as if saddened by the fact that no one is ever actually real with themselves about this hidden part of their soul as we put it to sleep in the day and only allow it to explore in the darkness of night.
So guys, I've got an actual confirmed meaning. Cemeteries of London is actually a song about the Thames River in London. During the Victorian era, the Thames actually was in essence a Cemetery, so many people threw themselves into the river as suicide and alongside people were often murdered with their bodies dumped in the river, it was a convenient place to dispose of people. Deaths in the river were so common that they actually had a Thames River Morgue, to house all the dread bodies that washed up from the river or were found.
So guys, I've got an actual confirmed meaning. Cemeteries of London is actually a song about the Thames River in London. During the Victorian era, the Thames actually was in essence a Cemetery, so many people threw themselves into the river as suicide and alongside people were often murdered with their bodies dumped in the river, it was a convenient place to dispose of people. Deaths in the river were so common that they actually had a Thames River Morgue, to house all the dread bodies that washed up from the river or were found.
"We go underneath the arches" Is...
"We go underneath the arches" Is also a reference to the Thames, if you've actually lived in London or rode on the river, you'll notice all the arches you have to go under at various points from bridges on the water.
"There are ghost towns in the ocean The ocean" Is a reference to where all the spirits end up once they have been washed down the Thames river, once they end up in the North sea.
While many people think the song isn't directly about spirits, it actually is focused on London and it's victorian past/deaths.
If anyone has actually lived in London, they will understand this song.
Yeah LSK, some of the lyrics are using historical mean for london, But my own interpretation are about someone who are technically "dead" in their mind and soul as earthenvessel stated. the word ghost and witches in the songs means that someone who are prefer darkness that wandering around the night because they are confused from what they are believe. I've been there (waking through night and sleep through days) so it's perfectly fits into me and others who are lost within the darkness. ghosttown and oceans means there are a place for those who are lost in the mass...
Yeah LSK, some of the lyrics are using historical mean for london, But my own interpretation are about someone who are technically "dead" in their mind and soul as earthenvessel stated. the word ghost and witches in the songs means that someone who are prefer darkness that wandering around the night because they are confused from what they are believe. I've been there (waking through night and sleep through days) so it's perfectly fits into me and others who are lost within the darkness. ghosttown and oceans means there are a place for those who are lost in the mass earth. I think the self explanatory lyrics are "I see god come in my garden but I don't know what he said, For my heart it wasn't open" means they can't open their heart and mind within their own problems and meanings.