The most personal and emotionally-charged song on Coldplay’s enigmatic A Head Full of Dreams, “Everglow” expresses memory and loss as an ever-lasting “glow.”

Most likely inspired by his own divorce from actress Gwyneth Paltrow, songwriter Chris Martin stated during an interview with Zane Lowe:

To me, [the song] is about — whether it’s a loved one or a situation or a friend or a relationship that’s finished, or someone’s passed away — I was thinking about, after you’ve been through the sadness of something, you also get this everglow. That’s what it’s about.