Great Song, I wonder if Chris Martin frequents places like this to figure out what his songs are about... lol.
Here is what I think it is about.
Firstly, I noticed the three stanzas change reference from: They to We to Him/Me.
So, follow this transition:
1) They look for 'God in their own way'. I take this to be people searching for God in ingnorance (darkness).
2) We search for proof of afterlife (Victorian Ghosts/listening to where the witches say there are ghost towns). Since we can't find God, we search for the wake of God, by looking for proof that there is more beyond this word (ie afterlife).
3) God looks for me and reveals himself, but I missed him because I'm not 'ready' to hear him... Possibly because He is not what I expect God to be like or that I am not ready/prepared to receive Him.
Now singing 'la la la' => happiness in the darkness. We are happy in our ignorance.
The song concludes there's no light over London today => There's no enlightenment... the masses are still ignorant to God.
I think it fits... I also find it interesting that he is using a Gaelic folk progression to talk about London. To me it might have been more appropriate to replace 'London' with 'Dublin', but what do I know.
Great Song, I wonder if Chris Martin frequents places like this to figure out what his songs are about... lol.
Here is what I think it is about.
Firstly, I noticed the three stanzas change reference from: They to We to Him/Me.
So, follow this transition:
1) They look for 'God in their own way'. I take this to be people searching for God in ingnorance (darkness).
2) We search for proof of afterlife (Victorian Ghosts/listening to where the witches say there are ghost towns). Since we can't find God, we search for the wake of God, by looking for proof that there is more beyond this word (ie afterlife).
3) God looks for me and reveals himself, but I missed him because I'm not 'ready' to hear him... Possibly because He is not what I expect God to be like or that I am not ready/prepared to receive Him.
Now singing 'la la la' => happiness in the darkness. We are happy in our ignorance.
The song concludes there's no light over London today => There's no enlightenment... the masses are still ignorant to God.
I think it fits... I also find it interesting that he is using a Gaelic folk progression to talk about London. To me it might have been more appropriate to replace 'London' with 'Dublin', but what do I know.