The Scientist

It's funny how everyone often takes their own meanings out of songs. What one person may get from the song may be entirely different to another, and entirely different to the original writer yet again.

There are a few websites out there where people submit there interpretations on song lyrics. This song in particular has always been a favorite of mine, yet every comment seemed to be a simple "I'm sorry" song about relationship break ups. Yet if you put quotes around the opening conversation, it takes an entirely different turn.

Tell you "I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are."

As much as we try, there is no science to love.



Coldplay - The Scientist

Come up to meet you,
Tell you I'm sorry,
You don't know how lovely you are.

I had to find you,
Tell you I need you,
Tell you I set you apart.

Tell me your secrets,
And ask me your questions,
Oh, let's go back to the start.

Runnin' in circles,
Comin' up tails,
Its only science apart.

Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be this hard.
Oh, take me back to the start.

I was just guessing,
At numbers and figures,
Pulling the puzzles apart.

Questions of science,
Science and progress,
Do not speak as loud as my heart.

Tell me you love me,
Come back and haunt me,
Oh, when I rush to the start.

Runnin' in circles,
Chasin' tails,
Comin' back as we are.

Nobody said it was easy,
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be so hard.
I'm goin' back to the start.