Coldplay

Released: November 10, 2008

Songwriter: Will Champion Jonny Buckland Guy Berryman Chris Martin

Producer: Will Champion Jonny Buckland Guy Berryman Chris Martin

[Verse 1]
Okay!
Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I'm across
Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't mean I'm hurt
Doesn't mean I didn't get what I deserve
No better or no worse

[Chorus]
I just got lost
Every river that I tried to cross
Every door I ever tried was locked
Oh, and I'm just waiting 'til the shine wears off

[Verse 2]
You might be a big fish
In a little pond
Doesn't mean you've won, 'cause along may come
A bigger one

[Chorus]
You'll be lost
Every river that you try to cross
Every gun you ever held went off
Oh, and I'm just waiting 'til the firing stops
Oh, and I'm, oh, just waiting 'til the shine wears off (Woo!)

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
Oh, and I'm just waiting 'til the shine wears off (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Oh, and I'm just waiting 'til the shine wears off (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Just because I'm losing doesn't mean I'm lost

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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