I ran away

XMTS :joy: This song takes me back to coming back from the airport after Thanksgiving 2015

I can remember that when the album came out I could for a very long time not even remember the melody of this song. Later over time I started to appreciate and understand the message of "my heart is my gun" more

This song reminds me of the one time I ventured out to visit South Boston in the evening

Aaaand another Stargate-chopped up vocal ! Do it doop doah doah doo-ah

Kaleidoscope...another track that never really clicked with me. Coleman Barks' narration and then that Amazing Grace snippet somehow doesn't do it for me, I don't know...

I don't understand all the hate towards this song. And that it was never performed live on tour, but then the band have a habit of not performing their best stuff live :rolleyes:

‘I know it’s over’ Icarus says to the sun The Sword sinks in Lightning strikes And two force, two forces collide And fight til it’s over Fight til it’s done

The guitar riff in Fun always gets me :sob: This has over time become my favourite song on the album. Love the guitar, the melody, the sad vibe, the imagery used in the lyrics...

Woohoo - woohooo !

I also remember sitting in my room, back in the US, and listening to the radio premiere !

AOAL, the in my eyes underwhelming first single of this album. I'm still allergic to these Stargate-chopped up vocals ! :joy:

Really ? Why did you want to leave ?

But the changing of winds and the way waters flow, life is short as the falling of snow

Everglow...for some reason this song never really clicked with me, except for the "when I'm cold, coooold, in water rolled, saaaalt...." part. I think it's the vocals and the drumbeat and Gwyneth's "Heey..eeeys" that make this feel like a rather generic pop ballad in my eyes. The acoustic version is better.

Good that you're here @alisbe. What's with @iamsue ?

Let me shoot across the sky, let me shoot across the...

I, oh I, oh I, got me feeling drunk and high, so high, so high ! Funnily enough, despite most other songs having winter associations for me, I associate HFTW with a subway station in the hot summer...

yes same for me ! I always found the last lines of Birds ("won't you take meeee toooo....") touching, but then the abrupt ending ruins it a bit

Birds...I have a particular scene associated with most of the songs in this album, from back around the time when it first came out. Birds reminds me of a particular street in the windy cold in winter :D

Life In Technicolor [4] (-2) Cemeteries Of London [57] (+1) Lost! [1] Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love [3] Viva La Vida [16] Death and All His Friends [2] Life In Technicolor ii [46] Glass of Water [12] Prospekt's March/Poppyfields [12]

I can't listen to this without seeing the confetti explosion and Chris running the walkway in my head, LOL

I think the live version of this song is much better than the recorded one

Bigger Stronger [25] No More Keeping My Feet On The Ground [20] Such A Rush [10] Brothers And Sisters [23] Easy To Please [8] Only Superstition [31] (+1) Don't Panic (Blue Room) [6] (-2) See You Soon [6]

Oh I think I landed in a world I hadn't seen...

OK herw we go !