David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
I came across this at the Everybody Needs Therapy Blog... a powerful video with a powerful message.
Nobody Said It Was Easy
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sometimes video gives a whole new meaning to a song. It's like doing therapy. As soon as you get the rest of the story, a person's life makes more sense. You get it when you get the history.
Coldplay has a song that I like, The Scientist.
I listened to it over and over again, which I do, like a four-year old, if I like a melody. I thought to myself: I know what this one's about.
A couple has a fight, The Big Fight, and in The Big Fight they break up. He bemoans the break-up in the ballad.
He wants to try again, go back to the start. Take Two.
It's what we do in therapy, really. We go back to the start, take a look at what went wrong, try something different, generally that's called an intervention and it is determined together with a professional, a human armed with dozens of things different.
Doing different is much harder than keeping same. Trying something different, being somebody different is much harder than it sounds. Change can be totally scary. A risk, it feels like for sure, being different. But worth a try.
But I got it wrong, the meaning of the song, regardless of how the words made it out to be.
Missed the link
Monday, March 30, 2009
The story is in reverse, the ending unexpected, and this explains the regret, the loss, differently than the words to the song as I [first] understood them.
YouTube - The Scientist - Coldplay
Nobody Said It Was Easy
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sometimes video gives a whole new meaning to a song. It's like doing therapy. As soon as you get the rest of the story, a person's life makes more sense. You get it when you get the history.
Coldplay has a song that I like, The Scientist.
I listened to it over and over again, which I do, like a four-year old, if I like a melody. I thought to myself: I know what this one's about.
A couple has a fight, The Big Fight, and in The Big Fight they break up. He bemoans the break-up in the ballad.
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.
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.
He wants to try again, go back to the start. Take Two.
It's what we do in therapy, really. We go back to the start, take a look at what went wrong, try something different, generally that's called an intervention and it is determined together with a professional, a human armed with dozens of things different.
Doing different is much harder than keeping same. Trying something different, being somebody different is much harder than it sounds. Change can be totally scary. A risk, it feels like for sure, being different. But worth a try.
But I got it wrong, the meaning of the song, regardless of how the words made it out to be.
Missed the link
Monday, March 30, 2009
The story is in reverse, the ending unexpected, and this explains the regret, the loss, differently than the words to the song as I [first] understood them.
YouTube - The Scientist - Coldplay
The Scientist
by Coldplay
Come up to meet ya, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need ya
And tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and nurse me your questions
Oh let's go back to the start
Running in circles, coming in tails
Heads on a science apart
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
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart.
Tell me you love me, and come back and haunt me,
Oh, when I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing tails
coming back as we are.
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 so hard
I'm going back to the start.
by Coldplay
Come up to meet ya, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need ya
And tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and nurse me your questions
Oh let's go back to the start
Running in circles, coming in tails
Heads on a science apart
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
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science and progress
Don't speak as loud as my heart.
Tell me you love me, and come back and haunt me,
Oh, when I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing tails
coming back as we are.
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 so hard
I'm going back to the start.
