Coldplay

Released: December 7, 2018

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

Producer: Rik Simpson

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Fixing up a car to drive in it again
Searching for the water, hoping for the rain
Up and up, up and up
Down upon the canvas, working meal to meal
Waiting for a chance to pick your orange field
Up and up, up and up
I see a pearl form, a diamond in the rough
See a bird soaring high above the flood
It's in your blood, It's in your blood
Underneath the storm, an umbrella is singing
Sitting with the poison takes away the pain
Up and up, up and up, it's saying

[Chorus]
We’re gonna get it, get it together right now
Gonna get it, get it together somehow
Gonna get it, get it together and flower
Oh, ah
We’re gonna get it, get it together, I know
Gonna get it, get it together and flow
Gonna get it, get it together and go
Up, and up, and up

[Verse 2]
Lying in the gutter, aiming for the moon
Trying to empty out the ocean with a spoon
Up and up, up and up
Saying, how come people suffer? How come people part?
How come people struggle? How come people break your heart?
Break your heart?
Yes, I wanna know, show me how to feel
Yes, I wanna grow, show me how to heal it up
Heal it up
See the forest there in every seed
Angels in the marble waiting to be freed
Just need love, just need love
When the going is rough, say

[Chorus]
We’re gonna get it, get it together right now
Gonna get it, get it together somehow
Gonna get it, get it together and flower
Oh, ah
We’re gonna get it, get it together, I know
Gonna get it, get it together and flow
Gonna get it, get it together and go up

[Bridge]
And you can say what is, or fight for it
Close your mind or take a risk
You can say it’s mine and clench your fist
Or see each sunrise as a gift

[Chorus]
We’re gonna get it, get it together right now
Gonna get it, get it together somehow
Gonna get it, get it together and flower
Oh, ah
We’re gonna get it, get it together, I know
Gonna get it, get it together and flow
Gonna get it, get it together and go up
We’re gonna get it, get it together right now
Gonna get it, get it together somehow
Gonna get it, get it together and flower
Oh, ah
We’re gonna get it, get it together, I know
Gonna get it, get it together and flow
Gonna get it, get it together and go
Up, and up, and up

[Post-Chorus]
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

[Outro]
Fixing up a car to drive in it again
When you’re in pain, when you think you’ve had enough
Don’t ever give up
Don't ever give up

[Spoken Outro]
Our friends, this is the end of A Head Full of Dreams Tour
Back where it all began, Buenos Aires
Thank you, everybody all around the world, at home and abroad
For being the best part of our show, for being the music
And for keeping your and our heads full of dreams
This was our first chapter
From now on, we'll only be full of surprises
We love you, we're grateful for all of you with all of our hearts
We exist for and because of you
Good night, good afternoon, good morning, wherever you are in the world
God bless you all, be kind to each other
We're in this together, we're one big band
Everything is possible if you never give up
And if you believe in love
Believe in, in love

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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