Jump to content
🌙 COLDPLAY ANNOUNCE MOON MUSIC OUT OCTOBER 4TH 🎵

Question about the song Rush of blood to the head

sromain

By sromain
in Past Releases

 Share

Recommended Posts

jamus

jamus

Posted
Posted

Hi. I may not be on the right track, but this is my try.

 

To me, the song is about a girl (yes, a girl; it appears that way based on the basic differences between the sexes and what they tend to do) examining the ardent actions of the guy she's in a relationship with and deciding whether or not to take that next leap. And it's a pretty big leap. The guy said, "He's gonna buy this place and start a fire." He's so in love that he even says he'll "buy a gun and start a war" for her. Seems kind of passionate, even irrationale, right? And that's just why the girl is questioning the guy's ardor.

 

I think a key to this song is in the two ways the girl can interpret the guy's actions. Does his willingness to burn her place (a place--real or otherwise--that she badly wishes to move on from but does not necessarily want to see burned to the ground: "...Even though the mistakes that I've made. See it all disappear without a trace (?)") orginate in his private parts so-to-speak (resulting in this rush of blood to the head) or from a special "love" that us humans consistently and perpetually find hard to explain and define (resulting in this rush of blood to the head)? A major question in the song is something along those lines.

 

The guy said he'll burn her place, and even grab a gun (Does that sound rational to you, or even peaceable?), and then briefly forgets he was going to burn her place: "Oh, and I'm gonna burn this place is what I said." But he tells her to blame his forgetfulness on a rush of blood to the head? She just needs to know where this rush comes from.

 

An aspect of this song that I like is that the onlookers (in the girl, and maybe even in the guy's life) are there. They say, "start as you mean to go on." What the guy wants to do for her sounds good to them. They just reiterate that he finishes what he starts, that his whirlwind, crazy-in-love commitment not wane, minus perhaps the initial whirlwind, crazy-in-love part: "Start as you mean to go on."

 

As with many Coldplay songs, we (and the girl) are not left with definite answers to the questions by the song's end.

 

In the end the guy says to meet her on the bridge. Then he says the lane. And then this place. And then he tells her to just "meet me where I said." Again, he tells her to blame all this--forgetfulness?, etc.--on a rush of blood to the head.

 

He wants to see her "pretty" face again. Guys want to see girls again (and vice versa) because of physical attration. But guys also want to see girls's "pretty" faces again because those faces are the ultimate signifiers of that "love" we find hard to explain.

 

Thanks for that question. Excuse my syntax if it seems difficult and convoluted at times. I don't exactly have to turn this in for a grade. Again, I may be on the wrong track, but I thoroughly enjoyed telling you what I think about that song. Either way, it's a beautiful song. And I encourage you to make of it what you want. I'd love a reply.

 

Jamus

Link to comment
Share on other sites
jamus

jamus

Posted
Posted

I just wanted to add this:

 

In the end, when the guy is telling he to meet her here and there, maybe he's forgetful, maybe he changes his mind, maybe he's madly in love and will meet her anywhere. Either way, he tells her to blame it on a rush of blood to the head. That's not enough for the girl to go on though. She's still left to figure out him and his rush.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
sromain

sromain

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Hello,

thanks for your interpretation..it's such a beautiful song that I wanted to see what people thought of it..also the part that struck (and moved :cry: ) me is "Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn And do back the things it did to you in return"

It does make sense that it's about passion and the things someone would do for "love"

:)

sandrine

Link to comment
Share on other sites
orliknight09

orliknight09

Posted
Posted
when i hear the song i think about someone who is så madly in love, that he/she would do anything..

and then just "blame it all upon a rush of blood to the head"

i dont know .. it's crazy i know ;)

 

that's what i was thinking. :D

i'm in love with this song. it's so beautiful. :heart:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
jamus

jamus

Posted
Posted

Hi, If........... If your question is in response to my post, let me qualify a bit. When I speak about humans doing things because of their "private parts," I mean simply to say that we do things because of what it means biologically to be human. Look around: humans populate Earth because humans have sex and reproduce. When boy meets girl, boy may want to meet girl because he thinks she's cute--an urge that stems from the fact he is sexually attracted to the girl--and he may also want to meet girl because he thinks she's pretty cool--an urge that stems from something other than his sexual desire. For me, the "rush of blood to the head" can come from the guys function as a sexual organism, the near unexplainable love he has for the girl, and everything in between. In life, there are usually no absolutes, mostly in-betweens. And on the many spectrums in life, one often lies nearer to one end than to another.

 

To refer back to the song, I certainly wouldn't want somebody to "buy this place and burn it down" if it had anything to do with their mere sexual desire as a human--on a spectrum so-to-speak, this "sexual desire" running the gamut from liking my facial features, to wanting to kiss me, to wanting to "go all the way" with me. If somebody told me that they want to "buy this place and burn it down for me" I would want to know why they want to do something so grand for me. And I personally would want to make sure that they want to do that for me because they love me outside of their sexual desire for me.

 

If.........., if you were referring to my post, that's my qualification, and I hope it helps. If you weren't, then hi anyway.

 

Good movie to watch about what it means to be human regarding sex: Eyes Wide Shut.

 

Are yours wide shut or wide open?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


×
×
  • Create New...