“Paradise” stands as one of the major hits in Coldplay’s impressive catalog. The release happened on the same day it debuted on BBC Radio 1. This is the third single from Coldplay’s 2011 album entitled “Mylo Xyloto”. And the song was released on 12 September that very year via Parlophone Records and Capitol Records. So, that’s pretty much it as far as this track goes. Apparently Mylo Xyloto, the overall project it is derived from, is some type of a concept album. And within that framework, the story at hand takes on a larger meaning. But as far as isolating “Paradise” as a singular piece, it is most basically about a girl who has lost all hope in her dreams becoming a reality. Now we know, based on Chris Martin’s own explanation of this song and the album it is featured on, that the subject is a resident of “a very big, oppressive city”, also being “a bit lost in (her) life”. So as put forth earlier, she mentally escapes from this depressing situation “through fantasy”. So the only relief she finds from reality is during ‘stormy nights’ in which she would fantasize about her ideological “paradise”. the subject becoming increasingly disheartened over time. But what it basically illustrates is as put forth above, i.e. The second verse relies even more heavily on symbolism. But the main points center on her being very optimistic in her youth. However, upon aging she loses hope in an edifying life – a disposition which, as we will get to later, is largely the result of the environment she was brought up in.

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