http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=796 :)

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’ll close her eyes

In the night the stormy night away she'd fly

 

and dreams of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

 

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

She’d dream of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

 

lalalalalalalalalalala

And so lying underneath those stormy skies

She’d say, "oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise"

 

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

Im actually very happy they released the lyrics. I've been checking the Recordings section all the time because I wasn't sure if he says "This could be" or "This should be". I saw some blogs even saying "It's gonna be"

 

Many don't like the lyrics but I think they are great. Simple and RELATABLE.

Im actually very happy they released the lyrics. I've been checking the Recordings section all the time because I wasn't sure if he says "This could be" or "This should be". I saw some blogs even saying "It's gonna be"

 

Many don't like the lyrics but I think they are great. Simple and RELATABLE.

 

I agree!

 

Nice to have oficial ones

I don't find them relatable...I find them horrible.

para-para-para-para- :laugh3:

I'm VERY happy that the lyrics are "...away she'd fly" as opposed to what I THOUGHT it was. ("...away she flied")

I'm VERY happy that the lyrics are "...away she'd fly" as opposed to what I THOUGHT it was. ("...away she flied")

 

Chris Martin sometimes/often change lyrics when he is singing live ;)

But well... I'm really glad to finally have the right lyrics :blush: :flutterby:

Yeah, in that other show he sang 'away she flies'

and in that paper that showed part of the lyrics before, he also didn't write "she'd"

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’ll close her eyes

In the night the stormy night away she'd fly

 

and dreams of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

 

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

She’d dream of

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

 

lalalalalalalalalalala

And so lying underneath those stormy skies

She’d say, "oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise"

 

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Para-para-paradise

This could be

Para-para-paradise

Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

EPIC

 

:P

Paradise is a wonderful song to wake up to in the morning.

I absolutely love the line, "I know the sun must set to rise." :)

lol he screwed up the first verse on letterman. sang 'bullets catch in her teeth' instead of 'she ran away in her sleep'

Unfortunately, he still says "life goes on; it gets so heavy".

 

:|

Unfortunately, he still says "life goes on; it gets so heavy".

 

:|

 

What's all the fuss about that part? I really love that bit:thinking:

It's just so very, very bad.

I have troubles with the first two lines. She expected the world .... what?

Did she expect the world to happen? to be great? to be known by her? She expected life to be the world? She got pregnant of the world? She expected the world to be good to her?

 

I don't get it :S

^Lol, same :lol:

It's kind of idiomatic....to expect the world is to expect that great things will happen to you.

Ah okay! Thanks, I never heard of that idiom. Now it makes perfect sense.

It's kind of idiomatic....to expect the world is to expect that great things will happen to you.

 

That lyric is quite funny to me actually, I first heard the song when I came back from a camp where it was some kind of catch phrase/running gag to say "this person/game/song is the world" (but in our Flemish dialect, "de wèreld"), meaning "... is awesome".

Can someone explain me what is exactly meant by " the bullets catch in her teeth"? I just can't figure out this expression.

 

Also "The wheel breaks the butterfly" is not so clear to me

 

Thks:)

Wow. Just love these lyrics. Must admit, Paradise wasn't exactly a fav when I first heard it, but it has grown on me SO much as of late, I cannot help but sing to it every time I hear it play. It's now a favorite. One reason I think it's come to mean so much to me is because when I really started listening to the lyrics, I could relate in a very special way, 'cause I can remember being a little kid, and always wanting something more in life, always waiting for something more in life, and it took me many years to realize that everything I'd ever wanted, everything I was "waiting for" was here all along. Some "grand tomorrow" is never gonna come, like I used to think it was. No, that grand tomorrow is never gonna come unless you find the "grandness" of TODAY. Thankfully, I did. I found true happiness. And so many of Coldplay's songs have been the soundtrack of my life, but that is what this song means to me. :) Sorta corny I suppose, but just being honest. :)

Can someone explain me what is exactly meant by " the bullets catch in her teeth"? I just can't figure out this expression.

 

Also "The wheel breaks the butterfly" is not so clear to me

 

Thks:)

 

I think 'the wheel breaks the butterfly' is a sort of idiom:

Using a wheel to break a butterfly would be like over-doing something or exaggerating about something. Sort of like the phrase 'making a mountain out of a mole-hill' (or I guess like making a teardrop into a waterfall :D) that's how I interpret it anyway.

Not sure about the 'bullets catch in her teeth' line though :thinking:

I think 'the wheel breaks the butterfly' is a sort of idiom:

Using a wheel to break a butterfly would be like over-doing something or exaggerating about something. Sort of like the phrase 'making a mountain out of a mole-hill' (or I guess like making a teardrop into a waterfall :D) that's how I interpret it anyway.

Not sure about the 'bullets catch in her teeth' line though :thinking:

 

Thanks mate!:)