He continues, “I’ve just been spoken / With a head full, a head full of dreams.” I think these lines refer to the power that imagination has in our lives. He describes this experience as “a love”–it’s exhilarating and emotionally beautiful. He sings, “You can see the change you want to / Be what you want to be.” In his dreams, bad things are gone, and he is who he wants to be. In the Chorus, Martin continues to describe what that “light” means for him: “And you get a head / A head full of dreams.” He has begun to dream of something bigger and better than what he had.
In the Refrain, Martin sings, “And say it’s true / It’s not what it seems / Leave your broken windows open / And in the light just streams.” All we have to do to find this place, like he has, is to open ourselves up to it, and the “light” will enter. His next two lines-"For the thirst and for the hunger / Come the conference of birds"-appears, according to, to be a reference to a 12th century poem called " The Conference of the Birds." In the story, birds go on a quest to seek out a phoenix-a wonderful, mystical bird that could symbolize the dreams that are going through Martin's head. In the second stanza of the verse, he sings, "Oh, I think I've landed / Where there are miracles at work." He knows that this place is something special. " He had been confused, but this world makes everything clearer. This is a new world for a person who had been "feeling ordinary" and didn't "know what. Perhaps after the depressing sadness of Coldplay's last album "Ghost Stories," Martin, as writer, has come into a new, brighter, and happier place. In the First Verse, Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin sings, "Oh, I think I've landed / In a world I hadn't seen." This track opens up the album with a bright, wide-eyed look at the world-a world where anything is possible. For that reason, I'm a big fan of A Head Full of Dreams. When a band's good enough that it can make people want to dance while also making them think, you know you've got something special. refers to Chris Martin explaining that he wants fans to "shuffle feet" to the songs on this album, and as Wife-April and I were listening to it, we realized that even our prime dance style ( west coast swing) would work really well with a lot of these songs. Everything about this groovy disco-experimental album is uplifting as well as dance worthy. SONG MEANING: Coldplay's "A Head Full of Dreams" is about imagined possibilities and hopes for the present and future.Ĭoldplay's new album A Head Full of Dreams is awesome-not only the lyrics, but the music as well.