Coldplay

Released: June 12, 2008

Songwriter: Jonny Buckland Will Champion Guy Berryman Chris Martin

Producer: Brian Eno Markus Dravs

[Part I: Lovers In Japan]

[Verse 1]
Lovers keep on the road you're on
Runners until the race is run
Soldiers, you've got to soldier on
Sometimes even the right is wrong

[Chorus]
They are turning my head out
To see what I'm all about
Keeping my head down
To see what it feels like now
But I have no doubt
One day we're gonna get out

[Verse 2]
Tonight maybe we're gonna run
Dreaming of the Osaka sun
Ooooh, ooooh ooh
Dreaming of when the morning comes

[Chorus]
They are turning my head out
To see what I'm all about
Keeping my head down
To see what it feels like now
But I have no doubt
One day the sun will come out

[Part II: Reign of Love]

[Intro]
(One, two, three)

[Verse 1]
Reign of love
I can't let go
To the sea I offer this heavy load
Locust wind
Lift me up
I'm just a prisoner in a reign of love

[Verse 2]
Locust wind
Here I stop
How I wish I'd spoken up
To a reign of love

[Verse 3]
Reign of love
By the church we're waiting
Reign of love
On my knees go praying
How I wish I'd spoken up
Away get carried on a reign of 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.

more tracks from the album

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

From the albums

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008)
Viva la Vida (Prospekt’s March Edition) (2008)
Três Irmãs, Vol. 2 (2009)
This Is Where I Leave You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014)

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