No doubt, Coldplay's sound -- elegant, melodic, and very dramatic — bore plenty of similarity to mid-1990s Radiohead. But the group was sharpened by frontman Chris Martin's ability to pull heartstrings and they stayed. As a result, the band became one of the most commercially successful acts of the new age.
Their songs have created magic within them and I would greatly recommend the song “The Scientist” to listen to. It is a piano ballad concerning a lover’s apologies and his intense desire to turn back the clock.
Basically, this song is saying that the persona had screwed up. He or she doesn't know how to explain it, because it was against reason, whatever he did. Maybe he or she was too preoccupied with such ideas that they were not compatible and that he or she was too over analysing the concept of love. The song tells the story of someone who believes that he can solve everything with enough thought, only to find out that love doesn't work that way. In the song, the situation just keeps on getting replayed over and over again and each time, it's still a problem. He and she shouldn't be together if you try to look at the relationship in a logical sense, just like scientists try to look at things in a logical manner because maybe their mindsets are different.
“Nobody said it was easy/Oh, it was a shame for us to part/Nobody said it would be so hard/” These powerful lines suggest that it is hard to keep the relationship, but it would also be sad for it to end. Although the relationship and frustration is hard to deal with, parting hurts way more. “Questions of science, science and progress/Did not speak as loud as my heart” What the person did not realize at the time that he realizes now is that all of the questions of "will this work?" and "how will this last?" do not even matter because he or she just feels the way he or she is.
This song, purely dramatic with prominent sounds of the guitar and piano and the frontman’s soothing and smooth sounding voice will surely make its way to the listeners’ hearts. The lyrics too are simply amazing with a lot of metaphors. The lyrics are not too hard to understand and someone who has experienced something like what the persona in the song experienced would surely tear up, especially in the last minute of the song where Chris Martin is singing without any words. It makes listeners remember such sad and happy thoughts especially of what could have been. It makes them realize that sometimes things should just be. They don't need to be picked apart or figured out to work. Love cannot be explained by science alone.
