Listen to Coldplay’s “Fix You” (or the version I prefer below the post) when you’re broken, and you hear a promise: someone will save me.
Listen to it after years of growth, therapy, and learning to sit with your own complexity, and you hear something else entirely.
The lights guiding you home? That’s your own clarity.
“I will try to fix you” isn’t rescue, it’s presence. Someone walking alongside you while you do the work only you can do.
The song hasn’t changed. You have.
That’s the thing about growth. It doesn’t just change how you see yourself. It changes how you hear everything, songs, memories, the words people said to you years ago.
What once sounded like a lifeline starts to sound like a witness.
What do you hear when you listen now?
This song now sounds like I am walking myself home. The only person safe enough to walk me home…is myself…I know that now.
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