Coldplay

Songwriter: Guy Berryman Jonny Buckland Will Champion Chris Martin Ralf Hütter Karl Bartos Emil Schult

Producer: Coldplay Danton Supple

[Verse 1]
Oh, brother I can't, I can't get through
I’ve been trying hard to reach you 'cause I don’t know what to do
Oh, brother, I can't believe it's true
I’m so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you
Oh, I wanna talk to you

[Chorus]
You can take a picture of something you see
Or swim a river out to the sea
You can climb a ladder up to the Sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done

[Verse 2]
Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how do you feel
Well, I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak
And they're talking it to me

[Chorus]
So you take a picture of something you see
Or swim a river out to the sea
You can climb a ladder up to the Sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done
Or do something that's never been done

[Outro]
So you don't know where you're going and you wanna talk?
You tell anyone who'll listen, but you feel ignored?
When you worry about the future and the third world war
Nothing's really making any sense at all, let's talk
Let's talk, let's talk, let's talk

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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