I guess anyone can have a bad year, but it doesn't make us love it any less. Eventhough they might seem predictable (I found that as well especially with Talk) but as a songwriter myself I can say only for myself that sometimes you run out of metaphores and just need to express yourself as a normal person. After all that's what you are in the first place, before you have to fill those shoes that everyone is expecting you to fill...

 

Hey Ari & Theresa!! How are you sweets?!?!?! :kiss: I haven't been around this place for ages!! It makes me miss everyone!!!

you have to be kidding...X&Y? Twisted Logic? Fix You? Square One? He's gotten better at writing lyrics, not worse

I guess anyone can have a bad year, but it doesn't make us love it any less. Eventhough they might seem predictable (I found that as well especially with Talk) but as a songwriter myself I can say only for myself that sometimes you run out of metaphores and just need to express yourself as a normal person. After all that's what you are in the first place, before you have to fill those shoes that everyone is expecting you to fill...

 

Hey Ari & Theresa!! How are you sweets?!?!?! :kiss: I haven't been around this place for ages!! It makes me miss everyone!!!

 

I agree with you Maria. ;)

 

Hey sis i'm doing ok, studying. How have you been all this time? Busy with your band i guess. I saw you did your cd and i downloaded your songs, are very good. :cool:

I miss you a lot. :bigcry: But you welcome here :D .

:kiss: @ reillo!

 

I think all the lyrics are pretty obvious!...there´s no mystery left!...as AROBTTH... :P

i've listened to the whole album a couple times now ( i didnt download it, my brothers friend works for a record store and gave us a copy a couple days ago) and wow. this album is amazing. just my opinion though. its's one that *gasP* my mother even likes (which is good, she is going to the concert with me) Fix you? White Shadows? Square One? Brilliance, i think. ;)

The thing I like about his lyrics is that yes, they are simple, but that makes them easy to relate to and understand (the ones that make sense anyway, not like Clocks). That's one reason I love Amsterdam so much..because of the lyrics..

i think that Chris Martin's lyrics are as good as ever.

the only thing I know the lyrics are gud

...I loooooooove the X&Y sound...

love Chris voice...

Guy bass...

oh my gosh... :D

He is a Great Lyricist...and Musician. That's why I listen to Coldplay.

The thing I like about his lyrics is that yes' date=' they are simple, but that makes them easy to relate to and understand (the ones that make sense anyway, not like Clocks). That's one reason I love Amsterdam so much..because of the lyrics..[/quote']

Clocks doesn't make sense to you? :o

Chris's metaphors (when they're actually metaphors) are so blindingly obvious that they make me slap my forehead in disbelief.

 

"Lights go out and I can’t be saved

Tides that I tried to swim against

Have bought me down upon my knees

Oh I beg, I beg and plead

Singing

Come out of things unsaid

Shoot an apple off my head

And a trouble that can’t be named

A tiger’s waiting to be tamed"

 

That's just one line after another of pure banality.

 

And "Amsterdam" is one of my favorite Coldplay songs, but I try not to think too much about what he's actually singing:

 

"Come on, my star is fading

And I swerve out of control

If I, if I’d only waited

I’d not be stuck here in this hole

Come here my star is fading

And I swerve out of control

And I swear I waited and waited

I’ve got to get out of this hole"

 

It's so generic that it becomes completely meaningless.

 

Rather than think of this as a huge negative thing, however, I prefer to think about how talented a melodist Chris must be to make those songs really moving. :D

 

Spot on!