This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Lyrics submitted by SMUSER17024245, edited by aimish, ItsNotHard, Peace411
Fix You Lyrics as written by Guy Rupert Berryman Christopher Anthony John Martin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Great version of a great song,
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This song makes me think of when you like someone but you are unable, for whatever reason, to do anything about it. It's that helpless feeling when you want to tell someone how much you like them but they aren't single, live to far away ("when you love someone but it goes to waste") or are too good friends to risk it ("when you lose something that you can't replace")....
This song seems, to me, to be saying that you should just go for it ("if you never try, you'll never know").
Then the chorus that says "lights will guide you home, and ignite you're bones" seems to say that it'll all be ok in the end and that you will do what is right....
I might be totally wrong but that's what it means to me.
Also, on another note, this is a great song and the people who have only heard it from the OC have missed half of the song as it is 4:54 long and the OC only plays 2:35 of it. There's a big build up at the end and a full band part instead of just the organ and singing that you hear in the OC.....
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Your right<br /> You are explaining the lyrics as they are show<br /> Luv the thoughts
@PeteBaldwin love your explanation <3 <br />
Chris said it was written for his wife Gwyn after her father passed away. So sweet and such a beautiful song. I wish I had a husband as amazing as Chris :)
"When you're too in love to let it go If you never try you'll never know Just what you're worth."
When I was going through a breakup with my ex, these lyrics struck such a comforting chord with me, because I was trying to help myself realize I could do so much better than him, so I had to let him go in search for a better guy that I deserve.
sometimes you also have to let go not just to find someone else better but to find yourself ...i wish you luck :)
i think that could be mean at the same time im not saying you should cling your past but you cant just move on and ignore it and why say you can do so much better than him? have respect to your loved ones
i think you're all focusing too much on there being a scenario for this to fit. I think the song is simply about grief and coming to terms with loss, whether in a relationship, or the death of a loved one. I do however, think that "ignite your bones" is a reference to cremation. I get the feeling it was a death that inspired this song.
The lines: When you try your best, but you don't succeed When you get what you want, but not what you need When you lose something you can't replace When you love someone but it goes to waste When high up above or down below When you're too in love to let it go
it almost sounds like a list to me? Of all the worst things that can happen to us. i think there's a subtler meaning behind this song... that all grief is the same, and we all go through it, you're not as alone as you feel.
rest in peace sushi, i hope you're happier now... i hope you know, i was with you to the end, and that i loved you very much ♥
@kobrakaaii ^ THIS. This is the most accurate description of what this song evokes when I listen. It's bigger than romance, to label the meaning of this song (music, interpretation, melody, that building PeteBawlding mentioned above) as simply a love-breakup-whatever story is to fall short. It's much more.
@kobrakaaii <br /> IMO, you hit the nail on the head. The lines you listed are indeed simply --and profoundly-- a list if what might make one grieve. This song isn't bound by a specific scenario, and in that lies its depth and power. It allows the listener to identify with his or her own reality and experiences... A scenario as unique as the listener him/herself.
@kobrakaaii I absolutely agree. It's inaccurate and incomplete to think this is only a lamentation for broken relationships. <br /> <br /> Long ago I read something beautifully profound: "The best definition of heartbreak is when a dream dies." The athlete who suffers a career ending injury. The son whose mother has passed away. The woman who is in the midst of a divorce. The business owner who closes shop one last time. All can prompt profound grief and sadness. <br /> <br /> Those of us who care for and love family and friends who are suffering such sorrow are often seeking ways we can "fix" them. If only because we hate to see them hurt so much.
I think this song is just tearful. I had a brain tumor when I was 13 years old. I've been living with it for 11 years and counting. I am a survivor. And everytime I listen to this song I get so upset. I am just so thankful i'm alive and safe. This song tells me that everything will be okay again and that I will be safe.
@pcms99338 you know theres this band that talks a lot about mental health and staying alive, they're called twenty one pilots, you've probably already heard about them on the radio, but go look for their older stuff if you like deep meaning in songs, its really worth it
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@pcms99338 I have had cancer for the past 6 months. They found a spinal tumor last week. My support group consists of my wife of almost 44 years, a receptionist at my work place and a friend I have known for over 30 years. The receptionist recently referred me to this video and my wife and I watched it last night together. It is though it was written for us. The tears of the people in the crowd (live version) became our tears. This disease is a fucking bitch-but with my support group and this song I will beat it!!! ❤️
"Fix You" reminds me of both me and my current crush. I've been helping him, as a good friend, to understand HIS crush, who is coincidentally a good friend, but she has hurt him in too many ways... I've been trying to help him fix this problem of his, but in doing so, I've grown to.. maybe even love him.
I just want to hold him and let him know it'll be okay, but at the same time, I want him to let me know that it will be okay, since I'm moving out of state in a week. ( miles away.) I'm going to let him know how I feel before I go, though. We both need to be fixed.
This song makes me feel weak... limp... relaxed, but like I can't do anything. Like someone needs to hold me up. It makes me shake. It makes me want to love.
Tears are streaming down my face.
@SoakedinMercury <br /> How are you now?
I think that this song could be interpreted in many ways. It can apply to anything. But, I think that this song is one that is trying to tell you that it's going to be okay; no matter what's going on.
This song means lots to me.
Me and my gf were madly in love these past two years of college. I left one weekend for a vacation, and when I got back she had changed. No other guy, no lies, or anything like that. She wanted to live life on her own. She wanted to find out who she was inside. There were no warnings, no signs. Just like that one day; all over.
We tried to hold on, but it was too hard. She couldn't hold on to a relationship, and I didn't know how to not want more when I was with her; I had her, but I couldn't keep her. I could hug her, but I couldn't hold her.
When I did, it meant different things to us. "When you get what you want, but not what you need". ...yeah. Definitely.
I had to cut off our contact and walk away, it was getting bad for us; especially me. She thinks I've let go, and that I'm gone for good; but that's not true. She needs the freedom to choose her own life path, even if that means finding someone else. It's tough, but I love that girl that much.
Unrequited love has nothing on unconditional love.
Honestly this is one of the most beautiful things i have ever read
@Nylo Beautifully written! This sounds like a similar situation with my ex and me. I'd give anything to hear him say those words. We ended 8 years ago in college and we're both married now so needless to say we've moved on. I think about him and there are times I miss him because of the connection we had. I hope you've been able to find a love you want and need.
@Nylo this is the most beautiful thing I've ever read. I hope you found the answers you were seeking. Love is hard. Me? I'm so lucky in that department considering I was born differently. We all have a story, different struggles. I look at this song and what it means to everyone - something different but yet all remains the same. It symbolizes a guiding light of hope telling us that it will be okay. <br /> <br /> You're a good person and I hope you've found the love you deserve!
@Nylo then you and your girlfriend weren’t madly in love my friend. Only you were .... or thought you were. After all this time you probably look back and we why it didn’t work.
@Nylo I guess these kind of things aren't that uncommon unfortunately. I had a very similar situation, she wanted to explore herself, without me. I loved her more than anything. During college she changed a lot and we grew apart, even though she still was the best and easiest person to talk to. Love can be so cruel.
@Nylo the truth is she was banging your best friend bro
this song is about gwenyth coming home from the hospital after her Father just died. she was crying and chris asked her what he could do for her, she said to hold her because he was the only one that could fix her. i think this would be a really cute wedding song, i hope i can use it for that someday.
you're full of shit... chris did not know gwenyth when her dad died, they met weeks after backstage of a coldplay concert. nice try though...
@pandajean This song will be a horrible wedding song, I hope that never happened.
i love this song! it's my one of my absolute faves from coldplay together with "yellow" and "the scientist"..
i think the song is more about someone trying very hard to do things right in his life but somehow he can never be good enough (or so he feels). he settles for the second best. [When you try your best, but you dont succeed; When you get what you want, but not what you need] he gets so tired of everything and feels in despair because it seems like everything he has done was in vain and sometimes he feels like giving up. but at the same time, he really hopes for someone or something to save him from giving up totally, or to guide him to somewhere where everything seems more familiar (hence the reference about lights will guide you home), and for someone to tell him that he can put everything right again..
but that being said, i don't quite understand the "and ignite your bones" part.. is it some reference to being reborn, and hence everything seems right again?
I agree with everything you're saying, but I think it's not that he's getting second best all the time, it's that no matter what he does life keeps throwing bad things his way and ruining all the good he works hard for.
Ignite i think means set on fire so he probably means set your bones on fire ha ha ha ha
its not that al he does is in vain, gwyneth paltrows father died after a long battle with dementia, it is impossile to cure, the reference to ignite your bones is actually a reference to her father with dementia, because when they have this illnes they are kind of reborn because they lose al inhibitions and hey go back to how they were years before the illness
i agree with easyasmuffin
I always thought it's like a farewell song for someone who just passed away.<br /> "Lights will guide you home" like taking you to heaven or something.<br /> "And ignite your bones" - is it a relation to a crematorium or something? <br /> I know that's quite a depressing understanding
@indie_addict 'Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones'<br /> <br /> It means that you will find the path to bring peace to your soul, that will bring life back to your body.....that will relight the fire inside of you
I believe that this song is about a guy who loves his girlfriend or wife so much, but at the end of the time she just go and leave him for some reason and then he is desperate to do something bad. For me his song means that you have to learn to accept your mistakes and others mistakes to go on and keep living your life. Its a very optimistic song.