A Message -- Coldplay

My song is love Love to the loveless shown And it goes on
You don't have to be alone Your heavy heart Is made of stone
And it's so hard to see you clearly You don't have to be on your own
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back And I'm not gonna say, "I don't mean that" You're the target that I'm aiming at Got to get that message home My song is love My song is love, unknown But I'm on fire for you, clearly You don't have to be alone
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back And I'm not gonna say, "I don't mean that" You're the target that I'm aiming at And I'm nothing on my own
Got to get that message home  And I'm not gonna stand and wait
Not gonna leave it until it's much too late  On a platform I'm gonna stand and say That I'm nothing on my own And I love you, please come home My song is love, is love unknown
And I've got to get that message home 


The lyrics and melody were inspired by the hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown," which was written in 1664 by English composer John Ireland.  "There's quite a big church influence . Because we all grew up singing in assemblies every morning. Of course. When you think about it, the most music we heard up to the age of 17 was singing hymns every day in school.

                                    

      The Return of the Prodigal Son, 


 The Return of the Prodigal Son is an oil painting by Rembrandt. Depicting the moment of the prodigal son's return to his father in the Biblical parable, it is a renowned work described by art historian Kenneth Clark as "a picture which those who have seen the original in Leningrad may be forgiven for claiming as the greatest picture ever  ainted".
 In the painting, the son has returned home in a wretched state

from travels in which he wasted his inheritance and fell into poverty and despair. He kneels before his father in repentance, wishing for forgiveness and a renewed place in the family, having realized that even his father's servants had a better station in life than he. His father receives him with a tender gesture. His hands seem to suggest mothering and fathering at once; the left appears larger and more masculine, set on the son's shoulder, while the right is softer and more receptive in gesture. Standing at the right is the prodigal son's older brother, who crosses his hands in judgment; in the parable he objects to the father's compassion for the sinful son:

But he answered his father, "Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him."
—Luke 15:29–30, World English Bible