What I don't like about the new songs

[Odvan]

The biggest problem.. no, the biggest concern I have about new songs is Chris voice. Dunno what is going on with it, but at festivals old songs he performs perfectly, new songs like he is off every time. :shrug:

[coldplay♪♫♪]

The songs so far are amazing! Especially Charlie Brown, but every teardrop is a waterfall not going anywhere except that everything seemed all right.

[Malcolm-Edge]

An Observation About the New Songs

 

So I was driving around with the Glastonbury concert playing, listening to Charlie Brown, which is the best of the new cuts, in my opinion. When I noticed something, and the same can be said about all the new tracks.

 

There are no choruses. Here are the lyrics to Charlie Brown:

 

I stole a key

Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet

I took a car downtown and took what they offered me

To set me free

I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene

I saw the lights go down and they're standing in front of me

 

Oooh

 

My scarecrow dreams

When they smashed my heart into smithereens

I be a bright red rose combusting the concrete

Be the cartoon heart

Light a fire, oh light a spark

Light a fire, a flame in my heart

We'll run wild

We'll be glowing in the dark

Glowing in the dark

 

Oooh ooh ooh

Ah ah aahhh

 

All the boys, all the girls

All the madness/families in the world

All the boys, all the girls

All the madness that occurs

 

All the highs, all the lows

As the room is spinning, oh

We'll run wild

We'll start glowing in the dark

 

So we saw an innocent liar(?)

We'll be glowing in the dark

 

Now, I will compare them to In My Place, the song I see as being most like it musically. Since they are comanded by a Jonny riff and guitar, with rather quite verses by Jonny and Will.

 

In my place, in my place,

Were lines that I couldn't change,

I was lost, oh yeah.

 

I was lost, I was lost,

Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed,

I was lost, oh yeah.

 

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

Yeah, how long must you pay for it?

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

 

I was scared, I was scared,

Tired and underprepared,

But I wait for you.

 

If you go, if you go,

Leave me here down on my own,

Well I wait for you.

Yeah

 

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

Yeah, how long must you pay for it?

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

 

Sing it

Please, please, please,

Come back come sing to me,

To me, me.

 

Come on and sing it out now, now

Come on and sing it out

To me, me

Come back come sing it

 

In my place, in my place,

Were lines that I couldn't change,

I was lost, oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

 

There is a clear chorus for In My Place, but Charlie Brown not that I can see. It has a verse, with the riff. Followed by another verse and the riff again. It then has a bridge and outro...Now I'll look at Every Teardrop...

 

I turn the music up, I got my records on

I shut the world outside until the lights come on

Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone

I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song

 

And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night

Until Monday morning feels another life

I turn the music up

I'm on a roll this time

And heaven is in sight

 

I turn the music up, I got my records on

From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song

Don't want to see another generation drop

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop

 

Maybe I'm in the black, Maybe I'm on my knees

Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes

But my heart is beating and my pulses start cathedrals in my heart

 

And we saw oh this light

I swear you, emerge blinking into to tell me it's alright

As we soar walls, every siren is a sympohny

And every tear's a waterfall

Is a waterfall

Oh

Is waterfall

Oh oh oh

Is a, is a waterfall

Every tear is a waterfall

Oh oh oh

 

So you can hurt, hurt me bad

But still I raise the flag

 

Oh

It was a wa wa wa wa wa-terfall

A wa wa wa wa wa-terfall

 

Every tear

Every tear

Every tear

Every tear

Every teardrop is a waterfall

 

Every tear

Every tear

Every teardrop is a waterfall

 

Once again not a single chorus. We have a verse, followed by a guitar part another verse a bridge and outro. Compared to say Viva La Vida, which we all know has a chorus.

 

Then you have a song like Major Minus which seems to be one long chorus, with short verses. Moving to Mars once again not a single chorus, then MX/Hurts Like Heaven is almost a never ending chorus.

 

Anyone else notice the weird structure to the writing of the songs? I haven't had a lot of time to examine the keys and progressions of the songs, so on that note I cant be concrete on saying anything there.

 

Maybe they are doing a concept album where they build the tracks to act like one long song.

[Brent]

I think there's already a thread about this?

 

But anyway, I noticed that too. I like that they're very different from the standard A/C/B/C/D/C structure. I don't think they want to get boring.

[bellynelly]

theres alot of good songs with no chorus, like songs without the title mentioned in the song lyrics, I like that!