Coldplay

Released: February 21, 2020

Songwriter: Bert Berns Chris Martin Guy Berryman Jacob Collier Jerry Ragovoy Jonny Buckland Will Champion

Producer: Rik Simpson Bill Rahko Dan Green

[Intro: Chris Martin]
Cry, cry, cry, baby
Cry, cry, cry

[Verse: Chris Martin]
In a book about the world
Called "The Luminous Things"
There are trees and flowers glowing
While Jizo Bodhisattva sings

[Chorus: Chris Martin]
When you cry, cry, cry, baby
When you cry, cry, cry
When you cry, cry, cry, baby
I'll be by your side

[Bridge: Chris Martin]
Don't want us to hurt each other (Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum)
Or cause each other pain (Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum)
Don't want to fear what we don't know (Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum)
(Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum)
We're in this together, baby (Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum)
We're as singing is to rain (Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum)
So I'll never, ever, ever let you go (Dum-dum-dum)

[Chorus: Chris Martin]
When you cry, cry, cry, baby
When you cry, cry, cry
When you cry, cry, cry, baby
I'll be by your side
Ooh, yeah
Ooh, yeah

[Outro: Chris Martin]
For your miracles outnumber
All the stars out in the sky
Doo-doo, doo-doo-roo-roo-roo
Alright, ooh

Coldplay is a British rock band, formed in 1997 by University College London classmates Chris Martin (vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Buckland (guitar) and Guy Berryman (bass), along with drummer Will Champion. The band’s name comes from Tim Crompton, a student who was in the same university as the members (University College London) at the time.

Once they issued their debut, Parachutes in 2000, many saw them as a Radiohead knock-off. No doubt, Coldplay’s sound —elegant, melodic, vaguely spacey and very dramatic — bore plenty of similarity to mid-1990s Radiohead. But the group’s hooks, sharpened by frontman Chris Martin’s ability to pull heartstrings, and the their willingness to evolve their sound, gave Coldplay staying power. The greatest examples are second album A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), which was generally considered to be musically and lyrically more mature and sophisticated, and less obviously the product of one particular influence, and the fourth one Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), where producer Brian Eno influenced the band to broaden their sound and led to various sonic landscapes. Both won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and spawned sucessful singles such as “Clocks”, “Viva la Vida”, “In My Place”, “Violet Hill” and “The Scientist”.

As a result, the band became one of the most commercially successful acts of the new millennium, with over 80 million albums sold – even if along with the acclaim came a vocal opposition, due to the supposedly derivative nature, the overtly emotional lyrics, and the fact they’re good-mannered English boys instead of wild rockstars. As a result, Coldplay are thought as either a punchline showing all that’s wrong with 21st century rock, or a really good if overplayed band with songs tailor made for stadium performances.

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