Coldplay: Fix You Meaning
Song Released: 2005
Fix You Lyrics
Fix You
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...
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It's about the movie Predator.
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When you're completely broken and lost and alone and you hear Chris Martin's voice saying "I will try to fix you" how can I even describe the feeling. It also works the other way, my sister is suicidal and in all my desperation "I will try to fix you"
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He may have wrote the song to his wife but I think that possibly deep down it asking what is missing in all of our lives and what must we do to feel complete. No matter what we do and who we have in our lives, and no matter how much money or what accomplishments we make, there will always be a void. This is because we were made to worship God(Worship=Sacrifice=Love) and commune with God. But sin causes us to be separated from God. Jesus died for our sins and once we accept that we are able to commune with God and worship him. Fulfilling our purpose and making us fill whole or fixed.
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My father passed away over a year ago and I still listen to this song and my eyes well up.
Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
and I will try to fix you
my interpretation to this is, when you die your soul is guided by the light into heaven, and as if your bones were lit into stars since your body doesn't matter anymore. It also has dual meaning for me since my father wanted to be cremated.
He was also a very depressed person, so of course I thought about the fix you part as well.
No one can replace a loved one. -
That just best describes the life I am having...
who will fix me up? -
I heard this song many times since it was out, and I agree it is about someone you love dying. The first time that I heard it after my father was in the hospital dying was the first time that I understood it and felt that he was speaking to me. I'm sure the song has many meanings to many people but once you are in the situation where someone so important to you is dying or has died, I think you'll see that the other interpretations are no where even close. It fits in with a parent dying.
"try your best but you don't succeed" - possibly the doctors tried to save him
"Get what you want, but not what you need" - anything can be bought with money but a life lost is gone forever
"Feel so tired that you can't sleep" - the trauma of the experience makes it impossible
"Stuck in reverse" - Maybe that life feels like it's unwinding, or you think about the past a lot
"lose something you can't replace" - I used to think about broken friendships or sentimental items but this is about a lost life because lives can never be replaced
"love someone but it goes to waste" - death feels meaningless, all the time and love you give to someone feels wasted when their life is taken from you
"lights will guide you home" - everyone should know what this means
"ignite your bones" - I doubt this refers to cremation - probably just means the traumatic feeling you have when a loved one dies
"high up above or down below" - could be heaven or hell, not sure. This whole paragraph is very hard to figure out. Just What Your Worth must be a quote he heard from somewhere, I believe its in real quotes in the lyrics. That means it is just that - a quote of spoken words, so without knowing the context it would be hard. It may be that he is trying to cheer her up and tell her that she is still important, that she needs to move on with her life and let him go. -
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I thought it meant about someone losing there virginity, haha.
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I'm sure this was written for Gwyneth... To me the song reminds me of my life... my depression and getting out of an emotionally abusive relationship and not being able to trust and open up to anyone. I feel broken and I'm waiting for someone to 'fix me' and help me trust again. That's just personally
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Overall my own interpretation, is that is is about loyalty, and love then loss.
'stuck in reverse' shows that he is unable to move on from it. -
I've been listening to the song over and over and have decided that it'll be the song I'll walk down the aisle to at my wedding. It fits my relationship w/ my boyfriend perfectly and we both agree it's the only way to go. we've survived almost breaking up and realizing that if we did break up we would have what we wanted at the time, but it wouldn't have been what we needed to make our lives complete. lights will guide you home, they lead to one another, he is my home, he is my everything and I am his. and tears did stream down my face when I was faced w/ losing something I couldn't ever replace.. It's so relevant... and the end where it builds and builds, that'll be ultimate where I'll walk down the aisle feeling so positive and over the moon.
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My take on this song is that he is expressing guilt over something he should have or tried or learned to do in order to help someone and now the person went away or passed away and he is grieving and living with the reality that if he had to do it over he will learn from his mistakes he made..." I will learn from my mistakes"
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hey!
me again!!!
about the marriage question, you can do whatever you want. If you feel this song reflects you and your life, then go for it!! btw are you getting married soon or is it a dream that will happen when you meet that someone? you don't have to answer that if you don't want to, I know its a very personal question.
and the toaster thing IS funny! at first I thought it was just lame, so thankyou to whoever it was to help me see it with a sense of humour. :-D -
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I have mixed feelings about this song. I can totally see his reasons for writing it. However, it is filled with so much emotion that I cannot explain. I want to cry but feel overjoyed. I really want to use this for my growing up photo montage at my wedding but I am not so sure if it's wedding appropriate. Any thoughts??
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