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June 03, 2005
Speed of Sound
The new Coldplay album hits the streets on Monday next week. And after listening to the single, I'm looking forward to grabbing my copy 
Lyrics, and their meaning. I found comfort last year with a number of songs, many of which where used in Jules funeral service. And I know it's kinda daft, placing meanings on songs, but then life is made up of meanings, and memories are much easier to embed through music. I know I spent a considerable amount of my life in education wishing that someone would release a chart-topping song based on, say, the periodic table, or laplace transforms. Maybe, one day
So, in the extended bit, the lyrics to it. And see what meaning it places for you 
How long before I get in?
Before it starts, before I begin?
How long before you decide?
Before I know what it feels like?
Where To, where do I go?
If you never try, then you'll never know.
How long do I have to climb,
Up on the side of this mountain of mine?
Look up, I look up at night,
Planets are moving at the speed of light.
Climb up, up in the trees,
every chance that you get,
is a chance you seize.
How long am I gonna stand,
with my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop,
before I see things the right way up.
All that noise, and all that sound,
All those places I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand?
Ideas that you'll never find,
All the inventors could never design.
The buildings that you put up,
Japan and China all lit up.
The sign that I couldn't read,
or a light that I couldn't see,
some things you have to believe,
but others are puzzles, puzzling me.
All that noise, and all that sound,
All those places I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
ah when you see it then you'll understand?
All those signs, I knew what they meant.
Some things you can invent.
Some get made, and some get sent,
Birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
ah, when you see it then you'll understand?
Posted by alan at June 3, 2005 12:22 PM
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