Coldplay

Released: December 7, 2018

Songwriter: Mikkel Storleer Eriksen Tor Erik Hermansen Will Champion Jonny Buckland Guy Berryman Chris Martin

Producer: Rik Simpson

[Verse 1]
Oh, they say people come, say people go
These particular diamonds were extra special
And though you might be gone, the world may not know
Still I see you, celestial
And I should, but I can't let you go

[Chorus 1]
But when I’m cold, cold
Yeah, when I'm cold, cold
There's a light that you give me when I’m in shadow
There's a feeling within me of everglow

[Verse 3]
Like brothers in blood, or sisters who ride
Yeah, we swore on that night, we'd be friends 'til we die
But the changing of winds, and the way waters flow
Life is short as the falling of snow
And now, I'm gonna miss you, I know

[Chorus 2]
But when I'm cold, cold
In water rolled, salt
I know you're always with me and the way you will show
You're with me wherever I go
But you give me this feeling, this everglow

[Bridge]
What I wouldn’t give for just a moment to hold
Because I live for this feeling, this everglow

[Outro]
So if you love someone, you should let them know
Oh, the light that you give me will everglow

[Spoken-Word Outro: Muhammad Ali]
God is watching me
God is, God don’t praise me because I beat Joe Frazier
God don't give nothin’ 'bout Joe Frazier
God don't care nothing about England or America as far as real wealth, it's all His
He wants to know how do we treat each other?
How do we help each other?
So, I’m going to dedicate my life to using my name and popularity to helping charities, helping people, uniting people, bring...
People bombing each other because of religious beliefs
We need somebody in the world to help us all make peace
So when I die, if there's a Heaven, I wanna see it

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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