Chris Martin explained the song's meaning in an interview with Music Week: "The central theme of the record — 'Paradise' is kind of about this as well — is trying to turn bad things into good things somehow. We as a band have been through some funny incidents in terms of people being aggressive towards us or whatever. And a lot of the record is fuelled by a kind of fire which comes from turning that negativity into positivity. And I think everyone in their life has something like that."
Chris Martin explained the song's meaning in an interview with Music Week: "The central theme of the record — 'Paradise' is kind of about this as well — is trying to turn bad things into good things somehow. We as a band have been through some funny incidents in terms of people being aggressive towards us or whatever. And a lot of the record is fuelled by a kind of fire which comes from turning that negativity into positivity. And I think everyone in their life has something like that."