As echoed by the many songwriters I’ve interviewed over the years, the most important thing you should remember about the medium of a song is how it relates to you and how it makes you feel. It would be fair to say that I was pretty disappointed by the actual meaning of the song, but that’s where Music in Notes comes in. You can read it on page 5 of a 2002 Coldplay e-zine archived here. Where to find it: ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’ (2002, Parlophone)īefore I begin, I should point out that Chris Martin has previously revealed what ‘The Scientist’ is about. I was too fragile to do so when I began the site. I just didn’t know when I would be ready to. When I started Music in Notes 3 years ago, I knew one day I would have to write my thoughts on this song here. Seeing that I have suffered through and am going through great change this year and hope can be difficult to find, I decided I didn’t have anything to lose to think more about ‘The Scientist’ now. I heard it again recently, and the discomfort of hearing the song again after so long came back, the tightness building in my stomach. This was the same man who, without fail, called me every single night I lived at university because he cared about me and wanted to hear how my day was, just as when I had lived at home as a child.īefore leaving the house one morning, he kissed me on the head and told me to have a good day at work. I knew he had difficulty finding the words sometimes, and he didn’t want to embarrass himself by accidentally mixing up his words. For a scientist, the worst fate of all was to be imprisoned by a mind that knew what it was thinking but that had such difficulty expressing the thoughts as quickly and brilliantly as it had once before. Two years prior, he suffered a stroke that slowed him physically and cognitively. It’s the song equivalent to kryptonite to me because of when it was released and what was going on in my life at the time. Or maybe the right word is not ‘like’ but ‘relate’ to. Coldplay during my week at One Week // One Band back in early July, I alluded to the one song by Chris Martin and co. In one of my posts in which I pitted Keane vs.
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