Coldplay: Paradise Meaning

Song Released: 2011

Paradise Lyrics

Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo.
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...

1. anonymous

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   Nov 8th 2011 !⃝

   I think it's about the death of a girl in war.."In the night, the stormy night,She closed her eyes.In the night,The stormy night,Away she flied..." It's sad but very coldplay..has a deep meaning; that's the reason I love coldplay!!

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
2. anonymous

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   Nov 6th 2011 !⃝

   This song is about a real girl who had big dreams that fell apart while growing up. She actually experienced that life isn't that easy, many problems occurred so she began using drogs " bullets catch in her teeth" "away she flies" and while getting high she sees her paradise.
   She's living in her own world and believes that everything is going to be better " I know the sun is set to rise". and this is kind of obvious when you watch the video and see that the band have a mask on, a mask of elephant, an animal that needs friend and company to survive, but in the end, the sun rises again when they found other people sharing and living the same dream.
   It's such a great song!!
3. anonymous

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   Nov 5th 2011 !⃝

   According to the video, this is what i believe the song is about. This girl, she is running away. She was running away from a life with him, or a life without friends. People were trying to catch her, and bring her back to her caged in life. They never get to her. She finally finds her friends or that special person, and is in paradise.
4. anonymous

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   Nov 3rd 2011 !⃝

   Its about a girl who wishes for something better. She had that "something better" when she was younger. Whenever she sleeps she dreams about what it was like when she was younger, all the peace she had had. Now all she can do is dream.
5. anonymous

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   Nov 1st 2011 !⃝

   She had dreams as a girl, as she got older she realized how cold the world is, she experiences hard times & she sleeps & dreams of the paradise as a young girl.
6. anonymous

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   Oct 30th 2011 !⃝

   completely agree with anon, definetely about settling for not so perfect and beginning to see that not so perfect can be paradise as well.
7. anonymous

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   Oct 30th 2011 !⃝

   i think its about when you dream of paradise, and feel down because life isn't, but then accept it, and begin to see the paradise in everything.
8. anonymous

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   Oct 27th 2011 !⃝

   I think is a song about the last minute of your life, when you see your whole life in a second right before you die, I think that the girl is a victim of a violent death and when she finally decides to leave this world she finds paradise
9. anonymous

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   Oct 26th 2011 !⃝

   It's a song written for the Great Recession ("the stormy night"). For the last decade many graduating students and young people grew up expecting the same benefits of the generation before them (jobs, travel, money, "paradise" (ie. sunny foreign beaches)) but instead the machinery of the economy has broken their wings (wheel breaking the butterfly) and most can now only travel in their sleep...
10. anonymous

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    Oct 24th 2011 !⃝

    I think the song tells that an animal is dreaming from a long time to go back to his family. The song tells when the animal sleeps he dreams of his family which refers to paradise. In the end,he reaches his family and the lines comes 'this could be paradise'. The animal came from the song.
11. anonymous

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    Oct 23rd 2011 !⃝

    Paradise is only in your mind and she never really get's there. She never actually get's to what is her paradise, but closing her eyes and thinking about it is the paradise that keeps her going.
    Paradise is what she dreamed of having in her life as a kid.
    Paradise is in her mind, in her thoughts when she sleeps she dreams of her paradise.
    Thinking of her paradise puts her in paradise, it doesn't matter that it's just in her dreams, her mind is in paradise
12. anonymous

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    Oct 22nd 2011 !⃝

    we are all caged in some way, and we all long for escape — while still having a laugh too.And leave it to Chris Martin to prove that, even though he's married to a movie star, has two children, does humanitarian work and fronts one of planet Earth's hugest rock acts, he still found time to learn how to ride a unicycle. The man is truly capable of anything, it would seem.
13. Lou

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    Oct 12th 2011 !⃝

    That could be the story of a woman who lives in a country torn apart by a war that might have started when she was just a child. She remembers as a child when everything was fine ("she expected the world")and then how scared ("stormy night" = bombings at night?) she was of this raging war, that had started, and was finding ways to "run away" from it by dreaming of paradise, of an imaginary world, a better world.
    As she grew up and became a woman, she is more aware of the horror that surrounds her, and as an adult she now struggles to find a way of "running away" from it, "it gets heavy". But she is not losing hopes that this war will come to an end "I know the sun's set to rise". Enjoy the music, the song, Coldplay.
14. anonymous

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    Oct 10th 2011 !⃝

    I would have to disagree with everyone here. I do think it's about a girl who was imagining her own paradise away from her troubles. But, I think, once she looks past yet problems, she realizes she is in paradise. Past experience I suppose. When I'm going through a tough time and am imagining a better place to be, sometimes all I have to do is look out my window and I see my own paradise.
15. anonymous

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    Oct 9th 2011 !⃝

    I think the song is about this bad world. As a child you think, you live in a perfect world, in a paradise. But later you will see, this is such a bad world. With the time the life gets a lot harder. The good nature is gone, now it's the time of the bad technology.

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