Coldplay's "The Scientist", Mood and Tone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWLpTKBFcU&ob=av2n

I personally believe that the song is about a man who has just made a major mistake and therefore caused the end of his relationship with his girlfriend. He trying to figure out what went wrong, but is over-analyzing the situation and not necessarily relying on his gut instinct. He wants everything to go back to what it once was so that he can undo the mistakes he made and revive the relationship.

The video shows his want for things to be the way they were, this is shown by the whole of the video being in reverse and eventually ending up at the incident that ended the relationship.

Lyrics from the song are shown in the video, for example "go back to the start", this is shown by the video being in reverse and he eventually ends up at the start of when it went wrong. Another example would be, "Running in Circles, chasing our tails", This is shown by him wondering around, he wondered through many different almost pointless location, e.g. a forest as it does not relate to the song which then shows he is lost in his sadness.