This song is beautiful. It has a new sound that Coldplay has never done before.
I think this song is about how when we are little we think the world is a fairytale. When little girls are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they say a princess or ballerina. When she grows up, these thoughts fade away. She matures and realizes that life is not a fairytale. In the back of her mind she wishes she was a little girl still. "It ran away from her reach" meaning that she moved on and she is growing up. "Life goes on, gets so heavy, the wheel breaks the butterfly." The butterfly, I think is the little girl mind. When she grows up, her mind becomes less creative and more realistic. She might still have dreams about being a little girl. Dreams are where she can be whatever she wants. (her paradise)
This song is beautiful. It has a new sound that Coldplay has never done before.
I think this song is about how when we are little we think the world is a fairytale. When little girls are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they say a princess or ballerina. When she grows up, these thoughts fade away. She matures and realizes that life is not a fairytale. In the back of her mind she wishes she was a little girl still. "It ran away from her reach" meaning that she moved on and she is growing up. "Life goes on, gets so heavy, the wheel breaks the butterfly." The butterfly, I think is the little girl mind. When she grows up, her mind becomes less creative and more realistic. She might still have dreams about being a little girl. Dreams are where she can be whatever she wants. (her paradise)
That's my interpretation