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Lollapalooza August 3-5, then Coldplay on the 7th in Chicago? Yes, please!

Ask the all-powerful Oracle.

Perhaps these reviews are out of 4 stars, not 5...

13 songs on the album would only be bad if the tracks weren't that good. If Coldplay thinks that their songs are good and tie together well to tell the story that the band wants then I'd say add a little extra time to the album. We've heard parts of the plot from 6 songs so far, but I don't think that they'll be able to fill in for everything that they haven't covered with 4 tracks. The story might suffer if the plot is not given the time to develop with the extra tracks.

I don't think that there's a mystery to that. It's just a clock.

On every street, every car, every surface are names And as the streets arise, we'll be writing this saying: "Don't let them take control" No we won't let them take control The lyric literally means that they are writing upon whatever they can find to warn others to take their lives back from the people associated with Major Minus.

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 In my scarecrow dreams, When they smash my heart into smithereens, I'll be a bright red rose combusting the concrete Be a cartoon heart Light a fire up by the spark Light a fire, a flame in my heart We'll run wild, We'll be glowing in the dark We'll be glowing in the dark All the boys, all the girls All that matters 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 wires We'll be glowing in the dark So we saw an innocent wire We'll be glowing in the dark This song is about an uprising against the group described in Major Minus, a villainous group controlling society. This affects the main character in the song (perhaps named Mylo Xyloto, just my opinion) and he realizes that his life is being controlled (cited in Hurts Like Heaven). He then joins the Lost Boys (or Car Kids) in order to retaliate. I was at Lollapalooza and as Chris sang the lyric "we'll run wires", an image of glow in the dark wires appeared on the screen. The lyric "We'll be glowing in the dark" may allude to the fact that the Car Kids will stealthily use wire taps to fight those associated with Major Minus and/or refer to the fact that the actions they make to overthrown this organization will make the Car Kids the hopeful light amidst dark times.

The EP has been posted as a pre-order under the UK's iTunes Store. Here are the track titles: 1. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall 2. Major Minus 3. Moving to Mars

Oh morning come bursting, the clouds, they break Lift off this blindfold, let me see again And bring back the water, that your ships rode in In my heart you left a hole The tightrope that I’m walking just sways and ties The devil as he’s talking with those angel’s eye And I just want to be there when the lightning strikes And the saints go marching in And sing slow it down Through chaos as it swirls It’s just us against the world Like a river to a raindrop, I lost a friend I'M DRUNKEN AS A DANIEL IN A LION'S DEN* And tonight I know it all has to begin again So whatever you do, don’t let go And if we could float away Fly up to the surface and just start again And lift off before trouble Just TWO ROSES in the rain Just TWO ROSES in the rain Just TWO ROSES, just TWO ROSES in the rain Sing slow it down Slow it down Through chaos as it swirls It’s just us against the world Through chaos as it swirls It’s us against the world