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 come streaming down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears come streaming down your face
And I

Tears come streaming down your face
I promise you I will learn from all my mistakes
Tears come streaming down your face
And I

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you



Lyrics submitted by emgee, edited by aimish, ItsNotHard

Track duration: 04:55

"Fix You" as written by Guy Rupert Berryman, William Champion, Christopher Anthony John Martin, Jonathan Mark Buckland

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    My Interpretation:This is quite specific but I always thought this song was about a boy who found a dying bird. Both of them were severely hurt but being together kind of fixed them both.
    Flag Jenoiron June 04, 2013   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Every single song on X&Y moves me more than any music I've ever heard. I'm not sure if it has to do with where Chris was when he wrote it, or where I was when I first heard it..... or both. I think Fix You is really saying that I Love you so much, so intensely much, that no matter how you feel or bad you think it is, or sad you are, I will never, ever, stop loving you. Remarkably unconditional love is prolly the only thing that can fix your pain, your hate, your current you. Because I love you that much, I'll always be trying to fix you.
    Flag kidcjgon May 21, 2013   Link
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    Memory:This song reminds me of me and my sister.. how i lost her.. she was my everything, when we were young we were together all the time.. nothing couldnt separate us.. But then she met one guy, she went away with him, she left me, even when she knew how much is painful for me and how much i miss her, how much im crying every day.. she went away.. with no word.. not saying goodbye.. now they got married..
    she replaced our family for his. we do not talk.. I dont even see her for 3 month and when i do, all the time im listening about how her boyfriend is good and we are bad persons.. If you could only know how bad person he is, and she just dont see that.. I lost her, and I miss her so much :((*
    Flag ZalaSophieon May 20, 2013   Link
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    Memory:Coldplay's songs are really amazing and they can heal all your wounds. They helped me a lot when I fealt like everything was lost.
    Flag floreton April 29, 2013   Link
  • +6
    Memory: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.
    Flagged pcms99338on March 01, 2013   Link
  • -2
    General Comment:Good band. Absolutely hate the song. I've been hearing it since fall 2009. It's boring. It was especially boring last summer. Coldplay has many excellent songs, though.
    Flagged IllToast2Thaton February 18, 2013   Link
  • +1
    My Interpretation: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.
    Flag sarahmac56on February 18, 2013   Link
  • +5
    General Comment: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.
    Flag rosematazzon January 30, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:I always thought it was about people being traumatized by 9/11. '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.' Its like, They tried their best to forget and just move on, but they couldn't. Then Osama bin Laden was found and killed. They got what they wanted, but not what they need. They feel so tired but you can't sleep. Their afraid. "I hope I wake up!"

    Stuck in Reverse.Its all they can think about. 9/11 is ALWAYS on their minds.

    "Lights will guide you home" Of course the memorial lights in New York!
    "And ignite you'r bones" Knowing that some people are EXACTLY like them.
    "And I will try to fix you" The lights comfort them. They calm them down.

    Its just that first part that reminds me of 9/11.

    The second part after the first chorus reminds me of drug addicts. I think you know why....

    Well, thats my oppinion on the song. Hope you like it!
    Flagged ShooFlyPieon January 02, 2013   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:I always thought it was about people being traumatized by 9/11. '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.' Its like, They tried their best to forget and just move on, but they couldn't. Then Osama bin Laden was found and killed. They got what they wanted, but not what they need. They feel so tired but you can't sleep. Their afraid. "I hope I wake up!"

    Stuck in Reverse.Its all they can think about. 9/11 is ALWAYS on their minds.

    "Lights will guide you home" Of course the memorial lights in New York!
    "And ignite you'r bones" Knowing that some people are EXACTLY like them.
    "And I will try to fix you" The lights comfort them. They calm them down.

    Its just that first part that reminds me of 9/11.

    The second part after the first chorus reminds me of drug addicts. I think you know why....

    Well, thats my oppinion on the song. Hope you like it!
    Flagged ShooFlyPieon January 02, 2013   Link

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