The Story of the Scientist..

We were watching Coldplay perform on television one evening. One of the sweetest songs Chris Martin, Coldplay's lead singer, has written for Coldplay is The Scientist. Chris Martin formerly spoke of this song on a previous show called "The Storyteller" where musicians come on the show to talk about their songs, how it came into being, how they were conceptualised and what the songs meant to them.

The Scientist is a song of love ignored, lost and then mourned. The lyrics of the song describe the life of a scientist who is buried in his work. He is married to a beautiful lady who loves him very much and is deeply caring and concerned for his welfare. But he does not notice any of this as he continuously remains preoccupied with his scientific work.


And, one day the unthinkable happens, the way life happens. And on this particular one day that we are talking about, his wife dies..

Only then, he realises the void of her presence. The scientist misses the love that his wife had so generously showered on him and the ways she cared for him. The Scientist pines for the return of his wife, even if its just for a day. Just one more day. Yet, we all know as The Scientist probably does, that this one day he pines for, was not coming soon or ever.


Sometimes, i feel that personally or secretly, we are like that scientist in out life. We let life happen without much thought or care. We let life, moments and people slip by like the wind. Suddenly it is all gone, the life, the experience, and the people we are about and love so much, gone in a second. Sometimes tragically, sometime unexpectedly and even sometimes, unnoticed. And then that one day arrives, when we want that day so badly and for which we would give anything but it never arrives.

This song, as simple as it was with its lovely deep ballad made me contemplate life, everythning gone and everything yet to come. As profound as the song was, I know that the one most impotant thing we should take from this song is the importance of life.. love.. family.. people.. and moments.

There is an inevitable "one day" when these will all pass and althought nothing can change or alter the course of life, at the very least we should afford ourselves the peace of life's passing. We should give ourselves the peace of letting life happen, of letting people come into out lives or leave and of letting moments both good and bad occupy their space in life because the alternative, is regret, is the most painful, distressing and unsettling of all the feelings. And the one way we achieve this peace in all its gentle with others and with ourselves.



Hope teaches us that to make the best of life is to not be stuck in that day that will never come. Sometimes it's about harnessing the courage, a resilience which you may not be able to find from well-meaning people and well-intended talks, but from within.

The hope which can help you rise above the rain and regret that threatens to take you down and allows you to live the rest of your life the best way you possibly can. The one redeeming grace, comes from God, which allows us all to move from every moment gone and to find peace in moments here and days to come.

I couldn't help but to let it all out in just one story.
This song made me love Coldplay so much. It was from The Scientist that I knew, they were the best band in the world. The Scientist has been an all time favourite song for it lyrics and its graceful ballad. This songs has encrypted many unusual feelings deep inside of me.
Everyone should have a hear of this song.

Slow, but graceful..