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Pete Townshend originally wrote this about Jumbo, a character in his “Lifehouse” project, which was going to be a film similar to The Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia. Townshend never finished “Lifehouse,” but the songs ended up on the album Who’s Next.
The origin of the song comes from an event that occurred after The Who’s June 9th, 1970 concert in Denver. Townshend was tempted by a groupie. He went back to his room alone and wrote a prayer beginning, “If my fist clenches, crack it open…” The prayer was more or less asking for help in resisting this temptation. The other words could be describing Townshend’s self pity and how hard it is to resist.
Other voices tell that the lyrics are based on Townshend’s own feeling of angst – that no one knows what it’s like to be him, with high expectations and pressure to be someone he’s not. Knowing what a miserable sod he can be, he’s telling us not to let himself enjoy it because he doesn’t want to enjoy making us (the fans) happy. It’ll mean we will ask for more!
Still other voices state that Townshend has said that he wrote this to show “How lonely it is to be powerful.”
Townshend and Roger Daltrey both have blue eyes.
Limp Bizkit covered this in 2003 on their album Results May Vary. Their version was used in the Halle Berry movie Gothika. Berry appeared in the video, which was directed by Bizkit front man Fred Durst. Conveniently enough, Durst included a scene where he kisses Berry in the video.

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Amy MacDonald wrote this song when she was 15. She told the Daily Mail January 18, 2008: “Some people don’t get the irony in this. It’s not supposed to be a call to arms. It’s supposed to be funny.”

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Blunt said on VH1′s The Vspot that he wrote this song about seeing his ex-girlfriend with a new man who he didn’t know about on a train in the London underground. He says that they shared a lifetime in the brief eye contact. The words came to him all at once.
In a February edition of Radio Times, James Blunt responded to a question about the girl he sings about: “The girl in question is my ex-girlfriend and she’s with her new man. I’ve always said that I haven’t seen her since and then the press tried to find her. I’m not bothered enough to start acknowledging or denying whether they found her.”
The girl that inspired this song is Dixie Chassay, who works in the casting department on films. Blunt mentions her in the thank you note on his first album.
In the radio edit, the line “I was f–king high” is replaced with “I was flying high.”
The Daily Record March 22, 2008 asked Blunt if he was bored with this monster hit. The singer-songwriter replied: “If I had the radio on all the time and they kept playing that song then yes, I’d probably turn it off. But do I still like the song? Absolutely. It’s a really personal song about a moment which meant a great deal to me. And I’m sure plenty of guys have seen their ex-girlfriend with a new man at some stage. It bites into you and I captured that in a really honest song. I love that song for capturing that moment. I’m saddened by what it reminds me of, and I appreciate what it did which is advertise an album I’d made.”

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Lead singer Chris Martin has said that the lyrics are about being devoted to someone, wanting to do anything for them – writing a song for them, swimming across the sea for them and so on. He said that it’s not necessarily a romantic devotion, but someone that you look up to and would do anything for, a brotherly love.
The color yellow can have many negative implications (“Yellow Journalism,” “Yellow Fever,” a “Yellow Card” for a foul in soccer), but for Coldplay, it is a beautiful color. According to lead singer Chris Martin, “It was simply because that word sounded nice, it just seemed to fit, no other reason. None of the other colors would have sounded right really!”
The video is one continuous shot of Chris Martin walking on a beach in England. The plan was to shoot the band walking along a sunny beach with lots of people lying around, but Coldplay drummer Will Champion’s mother died shortly before the shoot. The film crew and extras were already hired, so with the band’s blessing, Martin went by himself while the other members attended the funeral. It was raining that day, so instead of using the extras, they had Martin alone on the beach. Parachutes is dedicated to Champion’s mother.

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Frontman Chris Martin told Rolling Stone that he christened this song and the album “Viva la Vida” – meaning “long live life” or more literally, “the life lives” – after he saw the phrase on a painting by Mexican artists Frida Kahlo. He explained: “She went through a lot of s–t, of course, and then she started a big painting in her house that said ‘Viva la Vida.’ I just loved the boldness of it.”
The movie Frida, starring Salma Hayek, is about her life. You can see the painting that inspired the title in Song Images.
The painting which inspired the song is this one:

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Bassist Guy Berryman explained to Q magazine July 2008 about this song that features lyrics about cavalries, missionaries and kings: “It’s a story about a king who’s lost his kingdom, and all the album’s artwork is based on the idea of revolutionaries and guerrillas. There’s this slightly anti-authoritarian viewpoint that’s crept into some of the lyrics and it’s some of the payoff between being surrounded by governments on one side, but also we’re human beings with emotions and we’re all going to die and the stupidity of what we have to put up with every day. Hence the album title.” Q magazine asked Chris Martin about the lyric on this song “I know Saint Peter won’t call my name.” The Coldplay lead singer replied: “It’s about… You’re not on the list. I was a naughty boy. It’s always fascinated me that idea of finishing your life and then being analyzed on it. And it’s that runs through most religions. That’s why people blow up buildings. Because they think they’re going to get lots of virgins. I always feel like saying, Just join a band (cackles head off). That is the most frightening thing you could possibly say to somebody. Eternal damnation. I know about this stuff because I studied it. I was into it all. I know it. It’s still mildly terrifying to me. And this is serious.”

Drummer Will Champion told Q magazine February 2008 that many of the tracks on the album share a theme of “trying to remember what’s important in your life, rather than being carried away by the trappings of other things.”

Chris Martin spoke to MTV News about this song: “I think everything we’re trying to do at the moment is about not starting again so much as breaking down what we’ve built up before and trying to build something different and hopefully better, or worse in a good way. And this song is one of our favorites, because none of us are doing anything on it that we’ve ever done before. But we really enjoy playing it. The longer you go on as a band, the harder it is to surprise yourself.”

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After this song was offered as a free download for a week on coldplay.com in April, such was the demand that the site crashed. The week after this song was made available free for download, it still sold sufficient copies for it to debut at #8 on the UK chart and #40 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Coldplay told Take 40 that this is a song about authority, but at the same time the chorus suggests other things.

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This song is about how great it is to be a musician. Amy McDonald explained on her website how she came to write this song: “I saw Pete Doherty’s first gig in Glasgow after he left Libertines. It was a great night – he did a little acoustic thing at the aftershow party too, and we got into that. Then me and my pals went back to someone’s house and just sat, passing the guitar round, singing songs. It was a brilliant night. The next morning I wrote ‘This Is The Life’ about it, cause I realized, this is the life.”
On January 13 2008, over 5 months after its release, the This Is The Life album reached the top of the UK album charts.

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Chris Martin (from Rolling Stone July 14, 2005): “On the second album I was thinking there was something missing. I was in this really dark room in Liverpool, and there was a piano so old and out of tune. I really wanted to try and work out the George Harrison song ‘Isn’t It A Pity,’ but I couldn’t. Then this song came out at once. I said, ‘Can you turn on the recorder?’ The first time I sung it is what’s out there.”

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This song gives the account of the killing of 51-year-old barmaid Hattie Carroll by the wealthy young William Devereux “Billy” Zantzinger and his subsequent sentence of 6 months in jail. The actual incident took place February 9, 1963 at a ball at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Dylan’s song accurately implies, but never states, that Carroll was black and Zantzinger is white. The song implies that Zantzinger beat Carroll to death with his cane when in fact; he drunkenly assaulted Carroll and at least 2 others with the cane (a bellboy and a waiter both also reported being attacked by Zantzinger the same night).
At about 1:30 am on the morning of February 9, he ordered a drink from barmaid Carroll and when she did not bring it immediately, he cursed at her to which Carroll replied: “I’m hurrying as fast as I can.” Zantzinger said, “I don’t have to take that kind of s–t off a nig–r,” and struck her on the shoulder with the cane. Carroll was heard to remark, “I feel deathly ill, that man has upset me so” soon after, before collapsing and being taken to the hospital. After Carroll died the following morning, Zantzinger was charged with homicide. However, this was changed to manslaughter and assault after it was discovered that Carroll had hardened arteries, an enlarged heart, and high blood pressure, and that she had in fact probably died of a brain hemorrhage caused by the stress of Zantzinger’s verbal and physical abuse, rather than the physical assault itself (the cane left no mark on her).
On August 28, 1963, Zantzinger was convicted of assault and manslaughter and was sentenced to 6 months in jail. Dylan’s song strongly implies that Zantzinger’s upper-class status contributed to the relatively low length of the sentence. After the sentence was announced, the New York Herald Tribune conjectured that Zantzinger was not given a longer sentence to keep him out of the state prison, since the notoriety of his crime would make him a marked target among its largely African American inmates (Zantzinger instead served his time in the comparative safety of the Washington county jail). Zantzinger began serving his term on September 15, and paid to the Carroll family the sum of $25,000. Dylan recorded this song on October 23, when the trial was still relatively fresh news, and incorporated it into his live repertoire immediately, before releasing the studio version on January 13, 1964.

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This is a tribute to legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who died in 1970. The verse is about sitting around doing guitar licks, and the “Voodoo Magic” is a reference to Jimi’s song “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” and to drugs (which Jimi openly used while recording). The line, “We’re glad for The Experience, we’ll miss you now it’s gone” is a reference to The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Jimi’s massively influential band. The line, “Does everyone have a different take” refers to Jimi again, as he never played a song the same twice – every take was different. The line “Does everyone get hypnotized by your fire” is a reference to Jimi again, as Hendrix is famous for lighting his guitar on fire on stage and everyone was ‘mesmerized” by his fire. “We all wish we wrote this song” because astonishingly there has been few tribute songs for Jimi. And “Life goes on” because every guitarist in the world today is influenced by Hendrix in some way despite his death.

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