Peeps, the Speed Of Sound is beyond a marsterpiece but i just want to know in deatail the meaning the song or what Chris is singing about on that song (Is he trying to tell some girl that he is inlove with her or trying to get back with the girl or maybe something else?) Help me out.

i can never get the meaning behind coldplay's songs-----but i reallly like all their songs thou i never understand them :P

http://www.songmeanings.net

Speed of sound, as far as i can tell is nothing to do with a girl. I think its to do with achivement and discovering. 'look up, I look up at night

planets are moving at the speed of light' and 'ideas that you'll never find

or the inventors could never design

the buildings that you put up

Japan and China... all lit up'

 

I think it is about awe and inspiration. All the things mentioned are the kind of things that amaze you and are beautiful. Just a song about amazing things...

It about a crush, IMO. He is just waiting for her to see him. "How long before I get in... before you decide...before I know what it feels like"

 

Of course, that's the only part of the song it applies to. XD

EDIT: where'd this come from?

I think the main part 'birds go flying at the speed of sound to show you what its all about' also means awe and inspiration. I think that is what it is about, just the sense of awe and amazment the world can give you 'Japan and China all lit up'

www.songmeanings.net

 

Thanks that really helped. :)

i can never get the meaning behind coldplay's songs-----but i reallly like all their songs thou i never understand them :P

 

 

Same for me :P

Speed of Sound is a song that delievers the message to take risks and life and to take advantage of all the beautiful chances you get to do something amazing.

 

"Every chance that you get is a chance you seize"

"If you never try then you'll never know"

 

The most important line in this song is "If you could see it then you'd understand" and the reason why it's so important is because so many people take for granted the simple yet astonishingly complex way that life is, and in that line, Chris expresses that if you could only see life the way he sees it, with its endless possiblities then you'd understand how unbelievable and how wonderful it really is.

i read on the official kate bush that it was about apple, chris felt it was a "miracle" so...i guess it talks about that

It says in RollingStone magazine.... http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7539555

 

Many of the songs on X&Y were inspired by the band's heroes. When I spoke with Martin earlier this summer, I was a little surprised when he told me that he considered Coldplay "incredibly good plagiarists." But that's not the whole story. As he did in childhood with his update on "Axel F," Martin has an incredible ability to ingest someone else's song, twirl it around in his brain and spit out a unique homage. (Strangely enough, Coldplay's first single from X&Y, "Speed of Sound," was topped on the British pop chart by a novelty song from Crazy Frog -- a cover of "Axel F.")

 

"I remember an amazing article about Radiohead when I was first getting into them," says Martin. "Jonny Greenwood said that every song on OK Computer was an attempt to do someone else's song. And that's how it happens sometimes for us." In that tradition, "Talk" wouldn't have been possible without Kraftwerk, and "The Hardest Part" is an ode to R.E.M. (Martin is careful to pay tribute to Michael Stipe: "I've lost all respect for fame, but I haven't lost all respect for respect. So the one great thing about being famous is that I get to meet people who I respect. Our relationship is akin to a dog and its master. I'll always look up to him.")

 

A highlight of Coldplay's show is "White Shadows," which was inspired by Tears for Fears' "Mad World." The title "White Shadows" was lifted from a Seventies TV series produced by Martin's late father-in-law, Bruce Paltrow. Even though Martin never met the man, X&Y is dedicated to him -- the CD sleeve reads, "For BWP." "It's meant to be subtle," says Martin. "It just has a way of making sense of death."

I agree with what many have concluded, The amazment of the universe, how everything is all effected and connected together.

It's about miracles isn't it? keeping it simple....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!