Coldplay: Paradise Meaning
Song Released: 2011
Paradise Lyrics
Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo.
When she was just a girl,
She expected the world,
But it flew away from her reach,
So she ran away in her sleep.
And dreamed of...
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Cold play mentions a girl. Well it had to be one of the genders but overall it doesn't matter the gender.
This song as I interpret it, is about every one of us. We are born and we begin with greatness and self awareness. We have no reason to question our own greatness until we meet with conventions and realities in this world that teach us otherwise.
As we progress, our experiences shape our reality. So essentially, we are taught we belong to the world we live in. Some cruel lessons advocate we are not great and we are not what we feel about ourselves. It's called conditioning. We become products of societal, cultural, religious, gender assigned stimuli.
They talk about a wheel (invention of man) breaking the butterfly (creation of nature; also seconded by beauty and fragile and free because it can fly). Symbolism.
This symbolism caught my attention as I see the skinning we go through as we go from the beauty of our self perception to where we end up. I call it "die butterfly syndrome".
It is the sad reality of almost everyone on this planet. It would explain depression for many of us. If this belief went away it wouldn't be so bothersome. In the end we withdraw into ourselves and our original concept of our own greatness and beauty is locked in the tower; ever present and haunting like a ghost. With our wings broken we are for the most part too crippled to help ourselves to reach our true potentials. This practice doesn't make us useless. It makes us useful and willing to accept worker bee lifestyles we would reject if our self concepts were left intact. Just like a horse needs to be broken before it will allow a person to ride on its back.
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I think this song is about a girl who expects the world to be as a fairy tale. But as she grows up, life gets tougher and not how she wanted it to be. So she dreams of the life she always wanted( paradise) she has lucid dreams, so she can dream of the life she always wanted. But then she is almost an adult (at the last part) andthings get tougher. Then she tries to remember what paradise is. Then she overcomes her challenges in life and her life does become something like the " paradise" she once dreamt of
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Well, what I think that song and video really means is to let animals be free. We should take care of those animals and not mistreat them. (:
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Reminds me of Amy Pond
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It's about a girl who finds that life isin't how she thought it would be, and "runs away" in her dreams and enjoys all of the things that she can't have. When life gets hard she escapes through her dreams but what she doesn't realise is that life can be "paradise" and that is what he is trying to tell her.
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i think this song is mainly about a girl who has dreams. it relates to me a lot in this way. she's having a bad teen-hood. she doesn't have a lot of friends to talk to. she's mainly in her own little world. when she's in reality, she hates it. but every time she closes her eye's, she see what she has been dreaming about. and she dreads the time when she has to wake up from day dreaming and live the horrible reality she's living in. she dreams of the paradise she wants everyday. but her life seems so pointless, that she's too scared to try and do better things in life. she doesn't want to work hard enough to get to that paradise she has been dreaming so much about. i cry every time i hear this song because i feel the same way that this girl is feeling. and that is why i loved this song so dearly.
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"To do their very best in getting closer and closer to this amazing paradise of yours." - anonymous
I really agree, every time I listen the song, there is something for me. Sometime it give strength and comfort, sometime realization and disappointment, sometime undefinable; but calm always come along after.
"Paradise" may be out of reach, but it's give strength, refuge and lead the path to it. "Paradise" may never be reached, anyway "dream" provide power to stand the storm. Let be practical dreamer, overcome whatever in the path and beyond the boundaries, "paradise" already have. -
Many things. One, suicide. 'Life goes on, it gets so heavy' 'Away she flies'
Elephants need company to survive, so the elephant being alone in the video...
He was all alone, he was unique. Humans, people who didn't understand him. He's only at home when he finds other elephants, he's no longer alone- not just alone as in people alone.. I am alone, but surrouned by people, because people don't understand me.. and I understand too much of them.
Also, the paradise she dreamt of as a little girl and how life isn't all that easy, she needs to find a reason to live, she needs to find her Paradise, her perfect world. -
this song is about a girl who first was so happy with everything but then got cancer and when she slept she couldn't feel the pain.
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a girl that is looking for comfort and the only way she is going to get it is suiside. She sees heaven as paradise.
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I don't think this is what it's supposed to be, but this is what the song means to me. When she was little, her parents loved he, but by the time she was three or four, she started getting abused. When things get bad, she tries to think of people outside the home who care for her. The bullets catch in her teeth is about a daredevil stunt, showing that even bullets can't stop her. Her dad yells and hits her still. It gets so hard. The wheel, an ancient torture device that slowly kills people is a metaphor for how her dad slowly breaks the innocent girl. She cries all the time. In the night of her "storm," when dad is angry, she closes her eyes, and tries to block out each blow, and flies to a place where she's loved. Lying underneath the stormy skies of his anger, she knows she must die before she goes to heaven. It's gonna be paradise.
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the song is about a young girl who was abused as a child. she has the image of her paradise in her head every time she closes her eyes but before she could get there she passes away because of her abusive parents, thus escaping to her paradise. in the music video the singer is an elephant trapped in a zoo (where many are abused) and gets away and goes on a hard journey to his paradise. the journey for the girl is escaping her childhood and parents.
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D song is quite complicated, so many meanings to derive but i do believe like most illuminati songs like 'fallen angel' by chris brown d devil was referred to as a girl so cold play paradise is probably referring to how from d beginning of d world how d devil tries to take full control but it was snatched away from him but all he can do is to think of paradise ie control which dey feel he wud soon attain
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This song accually makes me cry i dont know why it just hits my heart very hard it reminds me something i dont even know about
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when I hear this song I think of a little girl who grows up and she thought the world was perfect when she was little but as she gets older she knows that's not how it is and the only way she can reach HER "paradise" is in her dreams when she is sleeping and she can think of every thing the way it is suppose to be and she can live in it till she wakes
I also think of that this little girl is different than every one else and no wonts to be her friend no one helps her or anything but then one day she realizes she's not alone and she finds other people like her and she has friends
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