Paradise - Coldplay
The Experience:
Chris Martin's falsetto sings about childhood hopes. "When she was just a girl, she expected the world." Instead, life ground the girl's expectations into the dust like "the wheel breaks the butterfly". So the only paradise she has left is when "she ran away in her sleep." What we hope for has been so bashed into the ground that Chris almost doesn't dare to finish the word: "para... para... paradise..." Can we make our dreams come true? Is it true or just forced hopes that "This could be paradise?"
An elephant's long and hard escape to paradise... Which is ultimately being with his friends. Paradise is never being alone.
My Take:
I refuse to stop hoping in paradise. If I won't get it in this life, I refuse to stop looking forwards to it in the next.
Ask Yourself:
Ask Yourself:
Do I still hope to make this world paradise? Or have I given up my hopes calling my pessimism "being realistic"? Could this world be paradise? Will I make a difference?
LYRICS:
LYRICS:
Ohoohoooh
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 para...
para... paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Every time she
closed her eyes
When she was just
a girl
She expected the
world
But it flew away
from her reach
And the bullets
catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it
gets so heavy
The wheel breaks
the butterfly
Every tear a
waterfall, in the night the stormy night
She closed her
eyes
In the night the
stormy night, away she'd fly
And dreams of para...
para... paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Ohoohoooh
She dreams of para...
para... paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Ohoohoooh-ohoh
Lalalalalalala
Still lying
underneath the stormy skies
She said oh-oh-oh
I know the sun's
set to rise
This could be para...
para... paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Could be para...
para... paradise
Ohoohoooh
This could be para...
para... paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Could be para...
para... paradise
Ohoohoooh-ohoh
This could be para...
para... paradise
Para... para...
paradise
Could be para...
para... paradise
Ohoohoooh
Review by Simon Cleary
