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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To me this song is about a guy who is in love with a girl. Not that puppy love, but that deep down… put you before me, will never forget you kind of love. He knows she loves him too, but she is with someone else (And high 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) and because she lost her virginity to her current boyfriend she just can’t let it go and give him a real shot. They are at the stage in their friendship/relationship where he knows she is in a really bad place with her current relationship, but he is too hurt to fight for her anymore. But he loves her… and when she is ready… and she seeks God’s forgiveness for having pre-marital sex…he will be there… to try and fix her.
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This song was for Gwenyth Paltrow when her father died. Gwenyth was in a small depression, she was hungry, but could not eat; she was tired, but could not sleep. She was stuck in reverse. Chris wanted Gwenyth to know that the one place she could go when she is broken down is home.
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first time I heard this song was when I got the cd and instantly fell in love with it- it literally brought tears to my eyes. It fits so well with how one would feel when theyre depressed "when you try your best but you don't succeed" and how it feels when your alone and there's noone to talk to. "when you lose something you can't replace" also just gets to me. GREAT SONG. I LOVE coldplay- they got this cd right on the dot.
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We are all in this together we can all relate to feeling pain and needing comfort. If its a lost love or a death of someone dear to you we all have our downs. In sadness there is light we can find comfort somewhere, in a song or a friend anything really. Not all wounds were meant to be healed most never will be, but I think all wounds will get better over time they won`t disappear but they will slowly get better. Life will throw you into a loop sometimes but there is always something there to fix you
to me personally it is about knowin that you love someone but being to afraid to show it and knowing that in the end it`ll be lost forever
"high up above or down below
when your to in love to let it go
well if you never try you never know" -
At first I thought that it was about when apple was born and chris martin was contemplating the huge responsibility of being a dad, but after reading other peoples thoughts I agree that it is about when gwyneths father died.
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I agree that chis wrote the song for his wife after her father died...
But someone else on this page said its a/b losing your virinity and that makes a lot of sense too "when you loose something you can't replace...When you love someone but it goes to waste.." -
Fan into flame the gift of life has given you.
It's a knock-down, put it together kind of kit.
The pieces aree all there----but you are the glue!
God can heal a broken heart but he has to have all the pieces.
If you've tried but are stuck in reverse, coldplay will fix you. -
My dad passed away from cancer two months again, and this song just fit perfectly...I've read the other posts, and I'm sure chris probably did write the song for his wife...But I aslo thought that maybe he wrote it for his young daughter apple. If you listen to the lyrics, it can almost be taken as a father giving advice to his daughter throughtout her life. That's just my opinion, but yeah.
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It's really awesome how songs can have such different interpretations from person to person, but also individually from time to time.
When I first heard this song, it was during the time my boyfriend and I broke up. The lyric that really hit home was "when you're too in love to let it go; if you never try you'll never know; just what you're worth"
After my mother passed after fighting a long and hard battle, this song took a completely different meaning. My mother absolutely love lighthouses - it's weird how the one of the final lines in the song is "lights with guide you home"
This song is amazing on so many levels. -
I, too, beleive it was written after Gwyneth's father passed. But I found my own personal interpretation...the first time I heard this song there was a lot going on in my life.... a life-long friendship of mine was going down the drain, one of my boyfriend's best friend passed away and work was not going the way I wanted it to. But despite all the things going wrong, my boyfriend and I still had a trip planned to go to Disney World with his parents. To my surprise, when I got there he proposed to me in the top the Cinderella Castle. We took this CD with us on the trip and and the more we listened to this song, the more we knew it was going to be our "First Dance" song at our wedding. We've had people ask why we would want such a sad song played for our first dance but we don't feel that it's a sad song. We feel like it's a great representation of how we always want to be with one another - any time we " love someone but it goes to waste", "lose something you can't replace", or "try your best but you don't succeed" - we will be there to fix each other! This song is just so simple yet so powerful!
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I love this song in every aspect every angle and every nook that it has. It doesn't matter how you interprete it, it just sounds good no matter wat, n most importantly it relates to me a lot and I believe, to many others too.
My best friend, Maskinah Abu Kasim likes this song too, very much. Thanks Mas, for being my best friend. You are the first person to introduce me to this wonder.
Remember, if you were ailed somehow, I'll be there to fix you. -
I think this song is about Apple coming into their lives. The song has a lot of lines in it that sound similar to how new parents would feel. To me it sounds like he's singing to her and telling her that eventhough she's distressed about the baby, he'll make it better.
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The line "When you love someone and it goes to waste" can pull at anyone's heartstrings.
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Hmmn, Ive read somewhere back that it was written by Chris to his wife because her father died. That might be a possible explenation for this song. But I don't think that's the only reason. I mean, they put a lot of effort in the buildup. Almost like they want to cheer them up first, and then give them an intens feeling of the pain, and build of on a way so they can let it go after. I think this song
I think that these guys of Coldplay make their songs based on what's more in life, like afterlife or paranormal. This is even told on their fansite. About X&Y: "The lyrics are about big subjects like life and death, love and loss, about being fascinated by the world around us but also about accepting that some things can never be fully understood."
Now, songstyles like new-age are not only soothing, but are also made with a healing working, because they put cosmic energy in it.
"Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you "
I believe Coldplay did the same with this song.
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