Lyrics for Fix You as interpreted by emgee

Fix You Lyrics
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

And 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

When high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But 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

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clairebaby
05-13-2005

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i wrote the lyrics down while watching tonight`s episode of the OC. i always seem to get good music off that show! i forget what it sounds like, i just remember it was good... so i`m off to download it. : )

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EPJ
05-13-2005

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i also first heard this on the OC last nite and i love it!! but when i tried to download it, all i could get was some instrumental thing. were you able to successfully download it?

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Franniebaby23
05-14-2005

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i cant breathe when i hear this song. and i too heard this on the oc last night and i think is maybe the best coldplay song ive ever heard besides "the scientist" and "in my place". this describes my life. no words can describe what he feels.

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Linebacker37
05-14-2005

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Ah yes another I also head this on the OC. It's had a big impact on all viewers, cause all across the web people are buzzing about the "song at the end of the OC" I think it's gonna really help Coldplay with the sales of this new CD coming out.

Anyways meaning seems to be someone that has gone wayward in life and a plea/statement that there will be always someone to help them

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clairebaby
05-15-2005

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EPJ... after about 10 attempts to download it successfully, i didn`t even get one good version! the one that semi-worked was good for about 30 seconds then started over!

anyways... the next cd sounds like it`ll be pretty good.

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clairebaby
05-15-2005

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NEVER MIND... just got it.
it`s labelled ' OC version ' on limewire. : )

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zilla877
05-16-2005

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i had the same problem trying to download it! ill try writting "oc version"

but wow its an amazing song! :)

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indie_addict
05-20-2005

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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?

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indie_addict
05-20-2005

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by the way, a little part of me melts every time i hear this song.. i love it totally. chris martin definitely has one of the best voices around - there's something in his voice that just gets to me.

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The Scientist
05-21-2005

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Great song. Apparently this was written for Gweneth Paltrow after her father died.

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adamanteve
05-22-2005

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I'm really happy they did this on SNL :]
I love this song. I think indie_addict has a nice explanation for it. I love this song though because it reminds me of my ex and the way he is, and the way our relationship was.. but yeah this song is great. It's got a nice vibe and I loved seeing it on SNL.

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mimis
05-24-2005

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!!! Chris Martin is not gay. he is a great guy dont diss him.. dont u dare say he needs to be killed.

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amster8
05-27-2005

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i've tried to download this song about 20 times...and i keep getting a fake version and the OC version is bad quality =( anyone know where to download the real one? i want to hear it again...i love the lyrics.
"when you love someone but it goes to waste, could it be worse?"

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King Statto III
05-29-2005

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I cant believe this! Why can't y'all wait til X&Y is out like I am to get the songs from there?!

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musy
05-29-2005

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I'm a little confused, because I downloaded the OC version first, but it's kind if annoying because its taken off the show. I downloaded another version adn it was a completely different version. I really do hope that the OC version is the one on the album. It's a such a beutiful song, and I almost cry everytime i hear it.

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JJH070583
06-01-2005

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According to Martin, and I quote "We tried to steal off Many Rivers To Cross but make it more about death. The first song to be recorded and we went back to the first version after 18 months." And from guitar frontman Buckland "I put about 80 guitars on it. We took off 79 of them."
-Q magazine

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jamesb12
06-01-2005

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when i heard this song for the first time i had tears build up in my eyes, and shivers down my spine.. its the most perfect song ever... and i love it, best song on the perfect album

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jamesb12
06-01-2005

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the guitar riff just grabs you... it goes from the saddest song to the most uplifting song in the space of seconds and suddenly everything your thinking about thats wrong in your life seems ok and thats when this song really hits me
"tears stream down your face, i promise i will learn from my mistakes"

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lml342
06-01-2005

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As a diehard coldplay fan - I'm a little disappointed that this song premiered on something so trivial as the teeny-bopper show the OC - one of the reasons why I love Coldplay so much is because they refused to sell "Yellow" as a commercial jingle (until ABC finally got it)
That being said -
The song is about falling in love with someone but not having your feelings returned at all - so instead you settle for someone else but are perpetually left wondering about that original girl. It's also a plea for her to just fall in love with you and sort of a pledge that if she did, you'd always be there for her.

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PeteBaldwin
06-01-2005

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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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WshIWerKllyKapowski
06-01-2005

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the song just doesn't end like that. these are the additional lyrics:

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

...this song is amazing.

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sleepy_head
06-01-2005

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Whenever I listen to this song...I always thought it was about being in a relationship. you know... where you care so much about someone that no matter what the circumstances or what the fall-outs are, you always go back to them at the end of the day...

But maybe it's simpler than that. Maybe it's just about being there for someone that has gone through a lot. I mean... there are times in our lives where a series of bad things happen… but at that same instance, those moments are where people that care so deeply about us can be there for us, comfort us, and help us through those tribulations.
I think that’s what this song is about…being there for someone that has experienced a lot of pain.

Well…whichever meaning it speaks to you, it’s a beautiful song nonetheless…

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nolovenoglory
06-06-2005

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why don't you just go and buy the album? its amazin! u can't love this song that much if your not willing to give up some money for it! all the songs on the album are great. i heard this song when i bought the album and its my favourite. i cried the first time i heard it because it reminds me of things that my boyfriend says to me and my friends too. ive loved coldplay from the first time i heard them and love all of their music and so i just wanted to say love the band and the song, not just the fact its on a tv show.

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gReekFiRe
06-07-2005

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This song seems to be the most epic of the songs on x& y and is my favorite. I play this song over and over again. It inspires me, lifts me above my world...thanks for the great song. This is a song of hope, its about life, nothing in particular for everything in life is tough sometimes and yet we always move on, we may not forget but things do inevitably get better so long as we hold on. This is a journey without a destination and we are ALL on-board. Thanks for reminding me of that chris. This is about being human and feeling alive.

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teedoff087
06-07-2005

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This has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever written... period.

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