Coldplay | Nobody Said It Was Easy

As the video unfolds in reverse, we eventually see the tragic event that the singer is trying to "undo"—a car accident that changed everything.

To make it look like he was singing while the world moved backward around him, Chris Martin had to learn to sing the entire song phonetically backward . This process reportedly took him a full month to master. Coldplay Nobody Said It Was Easy

The song isn't literally about a scientist; rather, it uses "science" as a for someone trying to apply logic and numbers to the messy, unpredictable nature of love. As the video unfolds in reverse, we eventually

Lead singer Chris Martin wrote it about the desire to "go back to the start" after a relationship falls apart. The song isn't literally about a scientist; rather,

The music video is just as famous as the song itself for its .