Violet Hill lyrics

It's about a young man who has grown up all his life in poverty, wanting a better life. He watches the more affluent people in the city looking down from their windows, ignoring the poor. He trains to join the military, wanting to change things, but then deserts, feeling like he can't make a difference that way. He returns home and becomes a leader of a gang, stealing and using his military training to do so. All because of a girl he loves and wants to marry, he becomes more and more immersed in his life of crime, obsessed with his success and his hatred for the more affluent. He feels like the world has become corrupt and he must do the same to survive, and to provide for his love. But when he tells her what he has done; when he offers her money and a better life away from where they've grown up, she is silent, hating what he has become. Thus, his world is shattered and he is alone with his guilt, desperate to be loved for what he has done.

It seems to be about a chick who wants a guy to go to war or something. The guy doesn't want to go, but the girl wants to get rid of him. I know, it's stupid, but that's the most logical thing i could come up with.

This song is one of the many reasons why coldplay is awesome. :)

I just like the song. Do i have to leave a meaning?

I loved this song for a long while still like it now coldplay's songs just give me that good feeling there isnt one song from them thats bad and sometimes thier music gives me a feeling of the old times when ladies wore dresses and go to a dance and stuff. =)

No it wasnt written by a 13 yr old n no not everything in the world has to do with relationships this song actually changes that [[for once]] when they say if u love me wont u let me go its patriotic

I love this song its so meaningful and deep one of coldplay's good songs

I'm not sure what the song means to me, but i know of an error in the lyrics. In the part where it says;
"the banks became cathedrals" it isn't fog that became a god, but rather, the fox.

This song could mean a lot of different things, but in all essance of course it involves a couple, and one of em has the army in their path which sounds like this story coulda took plas in the 40's or even 30's. The couple is in love and just want the other one 2 let him know. She didn't tell him, he went to war and then he say "if you love me, why'd you let me go". And "violet hill is an actually place. And he askes her while there "if you love me won't you let me know.

I think the meaning of this song is that a guy and his girlfriend are in a low-populated city and are being watched by people. You tend to wonder what the meaning of the song is when you hear him talking about how he remembered the snow from the rooftops; you ask yourself why he would be on the rooftops. There are proably enemy snipers, i'd assume, because he says they were watching them from the windows. In the end, when they're sitting together on violet hill, he wants to know if his girlfriend loves him, but she still won't talk.

When he says "bury me in honor, when i'm dead i'll hit the ground, a love backhome it unfolds", i think it means that once he days in the battle, she'll then realize, back home, that she loved him, and will regret saying nothing to him.

I believe that "cobaltshadow", someone who posted another comment about this song, was right when he talked about the feeling that the winter setting gives you. It gives you more of a picture in your mind of a battle scene; people hiding in the snow.

When the singer talks about the prists clutching their bibles, hollowed out to fit their rifles, he probably is talking about how desprate people are to stay alive; that even the priests are fighting. In the end, the man is still confused, because his love won't tell him if she loved him.