music 17 Dec 2005 06:49 am
Don’t skip this post just because it’s “wierd Tia” looking stuff…
Sorry if the image is blurred. Do you know who this is? What do you think when you see this picture? Do you, for instance, know the band’s name is ColdPlay, and the front man is Chris Martin? If you veg on celebrity gossip at all, you might know that Chris is married to Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow and they have a daughter named Apple. Do you know why he has and equal sign on the back of his hand? Or when you see a bunch of men in black, looking a little rough around the edges, do you dismiss it? If you saw one of these guys on the street, would you look away and mentally divide yourself?
One day in Atlanta I was sitting in the playroom at Ronald McDonald House. Actually, it was about 2 am and I’d finally left Clara’s bedside long enough for the nurses to beleive I was going home to get some sleep. Ricky Martin (no relation to Chris LOL) had just released Livin’ La Vida Loca and was dominating the video stations. A song came on…a man on a beach just before sunrise. The entire video is of him walking along the shore as the sun gradually comes up. The song is “Yellow”. The lyrics are simple. The way he moved his mouth was mezmerizing to watch. It was just so simple….”I wrote a song for you, it was called Yellow….your skin, oh yeah your skin and bones, turn into something beautiful, you know, you know I love you so….you know I love so…”. Something about taking the complexity of life and love and simplifying it down to something so basic as a word, as a color…it was profound.
And so an adoration for a group was formed. The album was Parachutes but I didn’t get it until after I owned thier second…A Rush of Blood To the Head. By now, Coldplay was getting big press. Lots of comparisons to U2. Chris Martin and boys were emerging with other press too….free and fair trade, African causes, organics, and oh yeah…the famous girlfriend, then wife. By the time thier latest came out, X & Y, this year, they’d become mega-stars. They will be a legendary band. For that reason, even those who don’t know or like thier music should know who they are. They are relevant and if we are to be, we should know who else is and why.
Why are they relevant to me though? This morning I woke up with a clear desire to find my CD and play it loud enough to sing with while I made pancakes. It had to first be confiscated from The One I Love’s car, because it constantly travels back and forth, along with our Nina Simone collection. This album is all about loyalty, safety in relationships, finding comfort in human touch and contact, home lights, committment, dedication, retreat for soul repair. It’s simple lyrics again with rythms that are appropriate and complimentary. It’s not candy-pop. They are poets for our time expressing timeless sentiments and longings.
Fix You:
When you try your best but you don’t suceed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired buy you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
can it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
and I will try to fix you.
And high up above or down below
when you’re too in love to let it go
But if you never try then you’ll never know
Just what you’re worth
Tears stream down your face
when you lose something you can’t replace
I promise I will learn from my mistakes
Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
and I will try
to fix you.
We are fighting for what we beleive in here. We are struggling. Numbers are hard and it’s cold and everything takes constant discipline and control. It’s a good fight and we trust it will be won. We are far from giving up or even close to feeling defeated. But we do find ourselves needing to recharge. I know we both needed encouragement this week, a safe retreat and a place to know we could rest. Where God can fix us, even if it’s jut a patch for a little while to get us out there the next day, to keep putting one foot in front of the other, so we can fight the good fight. Run the race, ever closer to the mark. When we tired, and working when the sun is either no longer or not yet up, lights guide us home. Home lights; indications that there is a cozy sanctuary inside where the world can’t get us. Where we can hold one another in comfort, ignite our bones with strength for another day, and keep purpose before our eyes.
on 11 Mar 2006 at 2:41 pm 1.Sandy said …
I totally agree with you. I love coldplay and I too think that their music is mesmerizing and I love their lyrics. They come from the heart and actually mean something unlike other popular music of today.
on 26 Jun 2006 at 6:26 pm 2.Beba said …
All I can really say is BOOYAH! Coldplay make you feel.. nothing sus.
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