Song Description : Magic by Coldplay

 

Coldplay just released the first official single off their next album, Ghost Stories. The song "Magic" might just replace "Yellow" as one of their most-romantic songs. Fans everywhere wet their pants and then turned to their significant others to swoon, "This will be the song we dance to at our wedding."

"Magic," though, seems to fall squarely into their musical wheelhouse. It's more mellow than songs like their arena-shaking "Viva La Vida" or Mylo Xyloto's "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall." But, it fits nicely between singles like the aforementioned "Yellow" and their driving and soul-stirring "Fix You."

What's nice about "Magic" is the seemingly double-meaning behind the lyrics. Is the couple in question together or apart? There doesn't appear to be an easy answer. Take a look:

Call it magic
Call it true
I call it magic, when I'm with you
And I just got broken
Broken into two
Still I call it magic, when I'm next to you

Seems a little like the girl in question was the one to break him, suggesting they aren't together anymore. The song ends with lines that suggest whatever they've been through, they've managed to weather together.

And if you were to ask me
After all that we've been through
"Still believe in magic?"
Well yes, I do
Oh yes, I do

If that's the case, the song becomes especially powerful and almost too sweet. Then again, hasn't that melodramatic sweetness always been one of the things Coldplay have going for themselves?.