THE SCIENTIST
Come up to meet you
Tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are
I had to find you…
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh let’s go back to the start…
Running in circles; coming in tails
Heads on a silence apart
What most people don’t realise is that the song The Scientist is actually about Chris Martin’s younger brother Paul. While Chris was making his name as a GORGEOUS INTERNATIONAL POET AND VISIONARY, Paul was sitting an HND in electrical engineering at Hull University. He had always been interested in “questions of science; science and progress.” Chris obviously felt it was “such a shame for” them “to part“, and wrote this song.
Nobody said it was easy
It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start
However, “nobody said it would be easy,” and Paul’s poor marks for second year (probably because of his insistance on “just guessing at numbers and figures“) meant that he had to “go back to the start” of the year and resit the exams. He passed second time around, and is now a fully qualified “scientist“.
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart
Questions of science; science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
“Running in circles, chasing our tails” is probably a reference to Mitzi, a cheeky King Charles spaniel that the brothers shared as children.
Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Oh it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
April 09 2008 | Doctrine and Interpretation | 4 Comments »
