Imagine...

I got 'poisoned' into listening to this song more carefully...

with the many references to christianity i thought it would be a song about jesus christ or something but... once i read a few forums and listened to it myself...

this was the picture painted in my head...

just imagine...

A King.


A great King, powerful if not great... So great his enemies shuddered before him.

But ironically, with great power, comes the need for great inner strength to not use it to corrupt...

A strength which he failed to muster i suppose...

So like all great Kings, our King fell... Overthrown and tossed out into the streets...

And the revolutionaries who plotted this seizure of power tell the people their old King is dead...

So our once great King listens to his own people celebrate his own 'death' and the rise of a new King while he sweeps the streets...

Now our King is no fool, and not dillusioned either i suppose... He knows he won't survive very long on the streets, he'll most probably die soon...

But even as he prays to his God for strength, courage and mercy;

He knows, looking back on his conduct as King, that he will never be admitted into 'heaven' by those who guard it...

If you look at the video I think Coldplay has tried to make the entire video look like an old painting... which is way cool actually...

As a disclaimer i know nothing about English or European history, so that depiction up there is a picture which i found... fitting... for my version of the story...

So now when i listen to this song... i just close my eyes... and IMAGINE.


p.s. I know there have been people who have said that its about themselves and their own experience with the bad side of fame... and some more about the French revolution... but i like my interpretation thank you very much and it don't have to make sense to you... just to me. :)