Lyrics for Talk as interpreted by delial

Talk Lyrics
oh, brother I can’t get through
I’ve been trying hard to meet you
‘cause I don’t know what to do
oh, brother I can’t believe it’s true
I’m so scared about the future
and I want to talk to you
oh, I want to talk to you

you can take a picture of something you see
in the future, where will I be?
you can climb a ladder up to the sun
or a write a song nobody has sung
or do something that’s never been done

are you lost or incomplete?
do you feel like a puzzle?
you can’t find your missing piece?
tell me, how do you feel?
well, I feel like they’re talking in a language I don’t speak
and they’re talking it to me

so you take a picture of something you see
in the future, where will I be?
you can climb a ladder up to the sun
or a write a song nobody has sung
or do something that’s never been done
do something that’s never been done

so you don’t know where you’re going
and you want to talk?
and you feel like you’re going where you’ve been before?
you tell anyone who’ll listen, but you feel ignored?
nothing’s really making any sense at all?

let’s talk
let’s talk
let’s talk
let’s talk

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DC10
01-26-2006

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This song is a personal favoutite of mine, as I relate to the lyrics perfectly, as I feel the way Chris Martin sings about in the song. Everything about this song I love, the riff, the lyrics, the wierd video and the meaning behind the song. When I play this song, its as if its being sung about how I feel.

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Persian Boy
01-27-2006

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this is the first version lyric of this song. i think its more beautiful in respect of lyric than album version but if the solo would combined with this, the 3rd!!! version would be greater of all

Under the great North star
Try to work out where you are
In the silence of the sea
I don't know where I'll be

In the future, in the past
Going nowhere... much too fast
When I go there, go with me
When I go there, go with me

Cause I don't know where I'm going and I wanna talk
I feel like I'm going where I've been before
And I wanna talk
Take a picture of
Something that you're not sure of
Bring it back to show to me
But I don't know what I see

In the future, find a home
Getting nowhere on your own
Got to find your missing piece

Cause you don't know were you're going and you wanna talk
You feel like you're going where you've been before
Nothing's really making any sense at all
You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored

Let's talk
Let's talk
Do you wanna talk

I'm up in the part of the throne
I'm trying to sing a song
In a language I don't speak

I tried but I can't get through
I'm trying to get to you
But you’re difficult to reach
Won't you talk to me

So you don't know were you're going and you wanna talk
You feel like you're going where you've been before
Let's talk
Let's talk

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penrhyn
02-11-2006

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I just love it when the song sounds like it's over (at about 3.21) and then it changes mood or something and the song like starts over again and comes back even more powerful than before.

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musicaholic
02-16-2006

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Hey guys, Chris said at the Brits that their next album would be "the best piece of music ever" and everyone would love it . He also remarked that the band is breaking off for atleast a few years due 2 boredom . Well no Coldplaying for a long time huh ?

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hayeslisac
03-05-2006

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for "me" this song has similar relation to my actual brother and his death and not being able to speak to him any longer, correct things or know what the future holds. he would be the one who could guide me now..... but he had so much confusion while here, and i now feel he was misunderstood and could have felt ignored. lost, incomplete? obviously all my own personal feeling and makes sense to me.....oh brother i can't beleive it's true....no beleiving he is really not here anymore.....

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_ellie
03-12-2006

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you didn't ignore him.

To me, this song is sneaky. It makes me like Coldplay when I didn't before. I blame the U2-ish euphoria of it. It seems to me to be about language but I think all these interpretations can be good and well-founded. It's kind of about whether you can really meet with another human being because language is your only common ground, like when someone takes a photo of something, you can't even agree on basic 'facts' like whether turquoise is blue or green, whether a song makes you happy or sad. I don't know if you ever can sing a new song. It's about doing an English degree and taking breaks to get to know each other when you feel like everyone's clued up to something totally strange and intelligent. I can't stop pressing repeat.

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Summercloud
03-18-2006

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I'm with ellie, I didn't like Coldplay much before this song, but I loved the lyrics at the start.

Oh brother I can’t, I can’t get through
I’ve been trying hard to meet you ‘cause I don’t know what to do
Oh brother I can’t believe it’s true
I’m so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
Oh I wanna talk to you

This reminded me of a relationship I have with an American boy who I think of as my little brother. Other than that, I just love the flow of the song, and honestly I havn't really thought of the meaning of it, I like to make my own meanings sometimes.

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hatrickpatrick
03-31-2006

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This song probably relates to everyone in it's own way. The original version (under the great north star etc) relates to me very, very directly...
To me, it's about a girl I know very well (she's a really good friend of mine) who I've haqd a crush on for years. She's insanely beautiful, and probably the nicest girl I've ever met, and, frankly, way out of my league, but she's very insecure about her looks, and doesn't seem to realise how wonderful and gorgeous she is. Well I haven't seen her in a while, we've been growing apart recently, just a little, and I want to tell her how I feel, but I find it difficult to get up the courage to do it, or to find a time that feels "right", and to me this song is about missing you're chance, feeling like you've lost her forever and wanting more than anything else to talk to her, to find out where she's been, how she is...

But then again, I'm seeing her reflection in every song I listen to these days so it could just be me...

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Shadowsoal2000
04-05-2006

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Shahman : Took me a long time to reply to youe earlier statement....Why have you hit back so bluntly and agressively? I dont access music for a living you know, I'm not a pro or anything. I guess i was mistaken. I just feel pretty small and crap with all this over the top aggressive "music" that rappers produce.
It's ussually unpleasant and racist, and tends to invlove lots of women slinking around them with very little clothes on.
Rap created the chav generation and i cant wait for it to wither and die. Hopefully it will give birth to something a lot more settling and enjoyable to listen to.

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music_lover02
04-06-2006

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a great song....the end

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Alastis
04-12-2006

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This one of those "guilty pleasures" for me.

Usually, i find Coldplay music boring (aside from this one and maybe Moses) and lifeless plus Chris Martin's ego is bigger than the Universe, but this song is an exception.

Yes - they did took away part of "Computer Love", but...

Lyrics do mean something to me - and i think that version about rap music is not so far off.

Well - its not about rap music per se (even with references to brother), as much as about stupidity that current pop culture is promoting so well. You know - with all the ideas about how money can buy nearly anything, we're loosing one of the most important things that we humans have - ability to communicate with each other.

Money by themselves don't guarantee happiness and they won't produce as much excitement as friend, girlfriend or simply another friendly human being.

We tend to forget that with all the popularity of thug rap and violence these days.

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penrhyn
05-01-2006

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hatrickpatrick - Nobody is out of anybody's league. You just have to try and open your heart to her.
Good luck.

Alastis -
"Usually, i find Coldplay music boring (aside from this one and maybe Moses) and lifeless plus Chris Martin's ego is bigger than the Universe, but this song is an exception."
All I can say is... whaaaat? Coldplay music "lifeless"?? Chris Martin "ego"??? I respect your opinion but I have to say for myself, I think their music is amazingly beautiful. And when I listen to Chris singing I do not only hear his voice, I also hear that he is singing from his heart and I think that's something a very few singers today do.

But I have to agree with you about the money. I'm not a very rich guy but I would still sacrifice it all for the person I love. That is definitely something you can't buy.

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Southbound
05-07-2006

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For me, this makes me think of communication.

"Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can’t find your missing piece?
Tell me how do you feel?
Well I feel like they’re talking in a language I don’t speak
And they’re talking it to me"

It's seriously how I feel, being painfully shy. Different language about covers it.

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dajarockz
06-24-2006

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sweetie-o's.. there are two diff. versions of this song.. nwo witch one is the original one?

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sm0ke
06-26-2006

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Coldplay is awesome, nice instrumentals, vocals, nice sound at all !

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thiazole
07-17-2006

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I'm hearing something that no one else has mentioned at all. I hear a person who has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness... something that is only going to give him maybe 6 months to live.
He may have been told a week ago, but it has just sunk in and fully realizing he is going to die soon he is panicking and needs to talk to someone close, but he is all alone (he is scared about the future and doesn't know what to do). He is noting that the pictures he takes (memories) are for nothing because he will be dead and won't be able to look at them. He has so many things he wanted to accomplish before he dies (climbing a latter up to the sun, writing a song nobody has sung, or doing something that's never been done).
Then he talks about the confusion that goes along with being told you are going to die soon. Maybe the missing piece to the puzzle is belief in something (like God) to make some kind of sense of why this is happening.
"Tell me how do you feel" is his doctor and as they tell him why he is dying, he feels like they are speaking another language. There are no spiritual answers in the science behind death - just coldness.
The last verse discusses the exerience of death itself. You don't know where you're going (ie what happens when you die), are you going to cease to exist like before you were conceived (you feel like your going where you've been before), you try to talk to people about it, but people treat you like you have the plague because no one wants to think about death (you tell anyone who’ll listen, but you feel ignored) and again, you are so confused about why this is happening to you (nothing’s really making any sense at all).
In the video, the robot symbolizes death and the 3-D glasses symbolize the technology that diagnosed you. The spaceship symbolizes modern medicine trying to save your life, but in the end it is all false hope and right after you think you escaped death, the robot eats you (you die).

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Loose Tongue
07-31-2006

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Fuck you NO CODE 79, you stupid unintellectual piece of shit. This song is obvioulsy existential angst ridden, the opening line two lines is the crux of it. Fear of the future, the end of the world: be it ecological, fictional, historical, religious (Palestine vs Israel), world wars, family bereavement/loss, one's own mortality. I really believe this line:
'...you can take a picture of something you see
in the future, where will I be?...'
is a reference to the Robbie Williams film One Hour Photo where RW's character comments on the fragility of existenece & time & how happy/golden/sad moments are atheisticaslly lost forever in time. RW's character examines all this 'sense of loss' abstractly & even mathematically. If I don't make sense & you don't understand me I reccomend you start growing a brain or serve humanity & kill yourself you defunctioning retard.

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sillybunny
10-09-2006

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cool, guys ... first version, second version--quite telling ... too bad that lately this sucks ...oh, brother I can’t, I can't get through. I’ve been trying hard to reach you ‘cause I don’t know what to do. Oh, brother I can’t believe it’s true. I’m so scared about the future and I want to talk to you. Oh, I want to talk to you.

Here's to the brother--hopefully having a better time than I am ... but love the song. As good as x and y.

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BHark
11-02-2006

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The future is upon us but people dont know what to do! So everyone is scared inside but most dont show it. You can take a picture of something but forget it or take it for granted. We all lose touch but have this inner connection like a puzzle. We feel the need to talk or connect the pieces. Some people dont understand others, they dont make sense at all.

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Tsukasaru
12-06-2006

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To me. . . this song has quite a personal feel for me. During the specific lyrics, "Oh, brother- I can't, I can't get through. Been tryin' hard to reach you, but I don't know what to do. Oh, brother, I can't believe it's true; I'm so scared about the future, and I want to talk to you", and onward, I am reminded of my brother [who passed away two years ago]. This song always strikes that chord in me, and it's one of the songs that describes that side of me PERFECTLY. I love this song, and I interpret it as being about loss and loneliness, and yet an undertone of hope. Coldplay is my hero.

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hopeful
01-14-2007

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I love this song. Wow, the first and second versions are so different. It speaks to me in lostness and confusion. But I think the missing piece in many people's puzzle is actually God - not knowing Him, or why they're here. And I think meeting him is a better solution than taking a picture, climbing a (very very high) ladder or writing a song. These things might be helpful to express yourself, but I find reading the bible and talking to God is the ultimate answer - better than some brother I can't get through to!

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Vandy4g63
02-14-2007

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Dude he's calling his brother because his girlfriend is pregnant and she's talking about getting married. He's uncertain about having a kid and about being married, but he changes his mind after talking to his brother.

He changes his mind when he realizes the potential future of his unborn child. He's singing about Gweneth Paltrow and Apple.

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Vandy4g63
02-14-2007

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Uncertainty -
‘cause I don’t know what to do
oh, brother I can’t believe it’s true
I’m so scared about the future
and I want to talk to you

His fiance is pregnant (look at the timeframe the song was written - recorded around the time they eloped)
"in the future, where will I be?
you can climb a ladder up to the sun
or a write a song nobody has sung
or do something that’s never been done"

That's all stuff he could've done, but now feels smothered because his future seems closed.

Then he realizes all that stuff will not make him whole like a wife and child.
"are you lost or incomplete?
do you feel like a puzzle?
you can’t find your missing piece?"

So he changes the meaning of the refrain to either the possibilities of his child or realizing from his brother that he can still do all this stuff with a wife and kids.

"in the future, where will I be?
you can climb a ladder up to the sun
or a write a song nobody has sung
or do something that’s never been done
do something that’s never been done"

The I - You part of the refrain adds the ambiguity of whether he's talking about himself or his child.

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angeleyes07
02-27-2007

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I love this song. It seems to describe a major life transition, when you go off on your own, or you go somewhere new, you just don't know, and you really want to talk to someone. Its good. Its really good.

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lladylove1.com
03-26-2007

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I think that this song means that someone wants to talk but do not understand the language in which that person is speaking I LOVE THE SONG.

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