Coldplay – Yellow

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  My Opinion:I absolutely love this song and though I can agree with what (almost) everyone has said, to me this song is... hmmm... Well I really really really- x1,000,000- love orange, and this song is like a hope that someday I will find someone who can see the world like I do. And it was Orange. I feel like this makes no sense but, I can't explain it anyother way. Sorry if that was confusing.

  Flag FrTHMMRS21on May 08, 2013   Link

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  My Interpretation:It's a love song. This is not about sickness or jaundice. It plays on the word yellow and it's several meanings. The first yellow is being a coward, by the way.

  Flag kanzeion May 04, 2013   Link

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    excuse me, the SECOND 'yellow'.

    Flag kanzeion May 04, 2013  
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  My Interpretation:I write this as a possible meaning to the lyrics of Coldplay's Yellow. From the information I have drawn from a combination of the timing of the facial expressions of the singer on the beach in the song video and the lyrics themselves. Although I could be very wrong. If I am wrong I meant no harm - this was only an observation.
  The meaning of the lyrics and the song video images combined are long and complex and this is a very abridged version.
  Firstly, the lead singer is trying to explain to a girl from his past - he has really always loved - that although he took part in some 'act unpleasant' (not necessarily illegal) that involved himself and others (perhaps when they were all very young) and involved the girl, - whom he is also addressing directly in the video - and using the combined medium of lyrics and video to explain himself in apology to her, in a sincere manner, perhaps many years after the unpleasant event.
  Secondly, the lead singer yearns to wish the girl, and love of his life (who can never be his wife or partner now because of the hurt he caused her in the past by a foolish and probably boyish act) well for the rest of both of their existences on this earth. Adolescents do things to one another when they are in the transition period from children to adults that only serve to form a strong example of good behavior in the adult. This is called life experience, and as the song mentions - the example of what not to do as an adult that you may have done as a foolish adolescent is a beautiful thing.
  Regards and Respect to Experience.

  Flag Sweeneron April 30, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:It's an honest, wonderful declaration of love. This song's about pure devotion to somebody, perhaps an unrequited love in CM's case bearing in mind previous songs like 'Shiver'. Remember singing this with a girl I almost ended up in a relationship with a while back when we were drunk together, didn't work out but this song will always take me back to that moment!

  Flag TheTheon April 28, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:I love how so many interpretations can be put on a song. Such a good example of life and how our interpretation of it becomes our reality. I am choosing ‘Yellow’ to represent the ageless, three fingered two dimensional characters that appear in the ‘Simpsons’. ;P

  Flagged thistledoon April 19, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:This song reminds me of a girl I currently love. She apparently doesn't love or even like me back. I remember the time when I just told her I love her, and she claimed that she will treat me the same. Sadly, as time went through, she started avoiding me. I tried contacting her through various social networking sites, but to no avail of her reply. I "drew her lines", "jumped across", "wrote a song" and even "swam across" for her, yet I get nothing in return.

  Flag DaHitManNon April 10, 2013   Link

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    This song has become one my favorites thanks to the man that broke my heart. I dont usually reply to these types of comments but yours caught my attention, mostly because what you said hit home, except i was the girl. I was madly in love with the man i thought loved me just as much, but time proved me wrong. My advice to you, SHOW HER just how much you love her and if you're in love with her TELL HER.
    
    Good lucky :]

    Flag Magdleneon April 13, 2013  

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    There's going to be another girl. I promise someday it will work out. Keep your head up.

    Flag FrTHMMRS21on May 08, 2013  
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  General Comment:Look at the stars
  Look how they shine for you
  And everything you do
  Yeah they were all yellow
  above= (Heroin) demand all your attention
  
  I came along
  I wrote a song for you
  And all the things you do
  And it was called yellow
  Above=(Heroin)
  
  So then I took my turn
  Oh what a thing to have done
  And it was all yellow
  
  Above= "A shot of heroin!"
  
  Your skin
  Oh yeah your skin and bones
  Turn into something beautiful
  You know you know I love you so
  You know I love you so
  
  "above"= your numb and feel no pain (heroin.)
  
  I swam across
  I jumped across for you
  Oh what a thing to do
  above= what ever it take's to get high!
  
  Cause you were all yellow
  I drew a line
  I drew a line for you
  Oh what a thing to do
  And it was all yellow
  Above= oh' what a thing to have done=bad mistake!! and it was yellow?=(Heroin)
  
  Your skin
  Oh yeah your skin and bones
  Turn into something beautiful
  And you know
  
  "For you I'd bleed myself dry
  For you I'd bleed myself dry
  Above=to give anything to have.
  
  It's true
  Look how they shine for you
  Look how they shine for you
  Look how they shine for
  Look how they shine for you
  Look how they shine for you
  Look how they shine
  
  Look at the stars
  Look how they shine for you
  And all the things that you do
  
  just my thoughts. enjoy:)

  Flagged ThefirstApon February 24, 2013   Link

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    :)) that just sounds.. funny.. lol.. almost like a parody. :)) it just feels different to me, but this was interesting. :P
    

    Flag kundalinion March 27, 2013  

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    :( i could see that, But id rather not.

    Flag FrTHMMRS21on May 08, 2013  
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  My Interpretation:Yellow is the color of many things. Light, flowers, the sun and other stars, it represents happiness as well a illness in some cases. Yellow is a color that can mean many things and have many emotions. However, it is a primary color, therefore, one of the simplest colors. Just as true unconditionally love. It is unpredicatble and raw. It's simple yet profound. It's also infinite like the possibilities of yellow when it comes to what it can mean or what other colors you can make when you mix it. Yellow also comes in many shades and intensities just as love does. When you love someone you would "bleed [yourself] dry for them" and "[their] skin and bones turn into somethng beautiful" to you. This song is about unconditional love. The real type that everyone wants and deserves. The kind of love that is everything it wants or needs to be.

  Flagged LunarLoveon February 23, 2013   Link

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  My Interpretation:I think the "Yellow" in this song is about a symptom of a disease known as jaundice.
  
  Jaundice can be caused by several diseases like hepatic dysfunction and disease, inefficient thermoregulation such as with premature infants and several blood factors. In every case, when red blood cells in the body are destroyed in increased or normal amounts, the end product is called bilirubin which in increased amounts is toxic to the body - and is also colored yellow. Bilirubin is normally excreted in the body by passing through the liver. When the liver is diseased or dysfunctional, it fails to excrete the bilirubin. The retention of bilirubin, called hyperbilirubinemia causes signs of yellow skin as well as eye coloration - thus, the word “Yellow.”
  
  Look at the stars
  Look how they shine for you
  And everything you do
  Yeah they were all yellow
  
  I think the song is about someone he loves who is sick or dying. That person has loved and taken care of him at one point or most of his life. I’d say it was his mother.
  
  I came along
  I wrote a song for you
  And all the things you do
  And it was called yellow
  
  So then I took my turn
  Oh what a thing to have done
  And it was all yellow
  
  He feels it’s his to give back the love his mom had given him. She is sick or probably dying and he took the chance to show her his love. He visits her in the hospital and writes her a song.
  
  Your skin
  Oh yeah your skin and bones
  Turn into something beautiful
  And you know
  For you I'd bleed myself dry
  
  And even during the moment that her body is wasting away, he sees beauty in her. And in that moment, he knows he’ll sacrifice everything for her including all his blood. Blood transfusion is a common intervention at extreme exacerbations of liver dysfunction.
  
  This is a very beautiful love song. It is universal and can relate to every person who knows he can sacrifice his life for someone dear to him.

  Flag blackbirdflyon February 19, 2013   Link

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    You know, I totally thought that too. Initially, the word 'yellow' had me confused. I thought about the self-worth concept, and it can be there, yet... I wondered why specifically yellow, and then skin and bones and the sudden image of red on yellow with "bleed myself dry". Yellow was bright and sunny, yet, the mood of the song felt like it was indicative of more and the more I read the lyrics, I kept going back to Jaundice. It was so odd. And then I saw the video, and I see Martin alone on the beach, thinking, singing, reacting to his own words... even wiping a tear away (or atleast such an action). It was moving.. I checked out wikipedia, but the background of the song there seems.. twisted. Like it had no purpose at all.. but the words found their meaning later. And almost as if the words made the video their own, because the plan was something else initially. I don't know how to react to it, but I'm moved by the song. You've described the Jaundice interpretation very well. Definitely yellow also includes the unconditional love and the bright and sunniness of the colour as the stars shine.. Yet, it's the fever too. It just brings together all those feelings really well. It'd be a shame if this went to waste.
    
    

    Flag kundalinion March 27, 2013  

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    Dang I think you hit that like on the dot.

    Flag FrTHMMRS21on May 08, 2013  
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  General Comment:Your skin
  Oh yeah your skin and bones
  Turn into something beautiful
  You know you know I love you so
  You know I love you so
  
  I think this part is about when you fall in love with someone, their normal human parts, their skin and bones, suddenly become beautiful to you :)

  Flag rosematazzon January 28, 2013   Link

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    Awwwww! That's sooo perfect!!

    Flag FrTHMMRS21on May 08, 2013  

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