(Following on from Part 1, we here complete Drobbingdon’s musical based upon Viva la Vida/Prospekt’s March by Coldplay.)
Act 2, Scene 1
Three years have passed. The revolution was successful: the FOX was overthrown. Drobbingdon, the leader of the revolution, has become leader of the land, with Prospekt his deputy.
In a hut in Violet Hill, now the capital of England, a small group watch Drobbingdon’s latest broadcast on an old TV…
Drobbingdon:When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
But the complaints rise, and Drobbingdon is forced to address the people.
Drobbingdon:The FOX is defeated, we no longer get sick, we are free! Why then are the people unhappy?
Voice in the crowd:Because we are still poor!
Drobbingdon:Our misfortunes are due to an unseen conspiracy…
Oh no, I see, a spider web is tangled up with me,
And I lost my head, the thought of all the stupid things I said,
I never meant to cause you trouble,
And I never meant to do you wrong,
And i, well if I ever caused you trouble,
Oh no, I never meant to do you harm.
Oh no I see, a spider web and its me in the middle,
So I twist and turn, here I am in my little bubble,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me…
If you Google the meaning of the song “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay, you will find many differing viewpoints-not to say any or all of them are wrong or bad. But the REAL meaning and song author’s lyrics speak FROM A FEMALE VIEWPOINT! In fact this is documented by THE FEMALE on the album cover in the De La Croix painting: “Liberty Leading the People.” This is the closest that Chris Martin has allowed himself to come towards the ultimate proclaiming of the coming of the Female Messiah. Also, the Viva La Vida video begins with the unfurling of a red rose - The Reign of Love - and ends with those very red rose petals disseminating from the band into the world.
I used to rule the world,
Seas would rise when I gave the word.
Now I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own.
The female in question once was a powerful woman who was at the top of her game. She had it all but now finds herself alone, and her status severely devalued compared to her former power & glory.
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemies eyes.
Listen as the crowd would sing:
Now the Old King is dead. Long Live the King.
Once this female would have had the strength to make her enemies and nemesis quake in their boots. She would accompany her “King” on tour and listen as the crowds revered him and sang his songs. But this “King” of her heart is dead.
One minute I held the key,
Next the walls were closed on me.
And I discovered that my castles stand
upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand.
Once powerful and prominent, our lady is now acknowledging her utter fall from glory. Here is the clearest lyric about just who the “King” was - “the castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand…” in reference to “Find my nest of salt - everything is my fault.” Also Jesus’s sermon on the Mount whereby a “wise man builds his house upon a rock, foolish men build it on sand.’” So the female realizes she had foolishly put all her eggs into an unstable basket.
I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing,
Roman cavalry choirs are singing.
Be my mirror, my sword, and shield-
My missionaries in a foreign field.
The female is just starting to understand her feelings and comprehend her position. The Catholic Church bells serenade her and the Roman choirs are her call to action. (Bono touches on this dawning of realization in U2’s “Get on Your Boots,” when he sings: “You don’t know..you get it, do you?”.) Things are beginning to make sense, and the female seeks (as Queens do) someone to represent her to the world - a missionary - but one who is a foreigner (England) to be her mirror to the world and offer strength and protection.
For some reason I can’t explain -
Once you’d gone, there was never an honest word.
And that was when I ruled the world.
Despite what the world may think of her “King,” the female knows that he was a good and honest man incapable of telling her lies and she trusted him utmost when she was with him.
It was the wicked and wild wind
blew down the doors to let me in.
Shattered windows and the sounds of drums.
People couldn’t believe what I’d become.
Revolutionaries wait for my head on a silver plate-
Just a puppet on a lonely string,
Oh who would ever want to be King?
The “wind” is commonly known as a Biblical reference to the Holy Spirit coming on someone and offering knowledge and prophecy. Broken windows and drums perhaps alludes to a sexual connotation - never-the-less, the female is now lowly and living in a state unbefitting of her royal status. She has allowed herself to become poor and impoverished. Friends who she thought she could trust end up betraying her and aim to have her framed and arrested on bogus charges. This “queen” answers only to her God and must always obey Him if she is to regain her power. “She is a Godly puppet,” and wonders if any man would want to be her companion.
For some reason I can’t explain, I know Saint Peter won’t call my name.
Never an honest word, but that was when I ruled the world.
The Saint Peter reference is quite puzzling but if the reader watches a video entitled “Anna Molly” by Incubus, it will make sense. The female was once murdered as a youth and upon approach to the Pearly Gates, she was stopped by Jesus himself and sent back to life. The female was resurrected. And she lives today, apparently among us, always remembering when she was happy, had someone she loved and trusted, and ruled the world.
This “feminine” interpretation of Viva La Vida takes absolutely nothing away from Coldplay and only shows that Chris Martin and Coldplay are open musically to whatever force of nature inspires them creatively. Claims on You Tube that the song is about Napolean or the French Revolution, but nothing could be further from the truth. It has a modern-day component about it, despite usage of the French Revolution de la Croix painting, which truly shows the “Liberty” that the 2nd Coming of the Messiah offers the world - particularly at the perilous juncture we find ourselves at today.
Viva La Vida shows that absolute power is not absolute. It ebbs and flows and with the death of her “King,” the female was left so bereft, that she actually allowed herself to fall into a state of spiritual dissolution. But the fact remains, that God and the Church are calling her once again to action, and being the God-fearing, devout and obedient Godly servant , she begins to reformulate into her power–with the help of her missionary, mirror, sword & shield-the great Chris Martin. When appreciated from this female perspective, it shows the generous trust and love the female has for Chris Martin & Coldplay- that she allows them to tell her story to the world.
This comes as Martin tours an album featuring a track called 42, and which runs exactly 42 minutes. And yet humanity still insists that CM is JUST a singer, and that the symbolism the CoCM take from his teachings are “mere coincidence”.
Chris, it should be noted, is not only a big fan of dead comedy-slash-sci-fi writer Douglas Adams, whose books claim that 42 is the meaning of “Life, the Universe, and Everything”, but also of US TV show Lost, which features a series of numbers - including 42 - which have affected the lives of all the Oceanic 316 survivors.
What is happening here? Was he foretelling the future? Do other of Chris’s lyrics also include prophecy?
Did he foresee the Credit Crunch? Did he see Swine Flu coming? Does Life in Technicolour foretell a time of tribulation (”there’s a cold war coming”)? Does Yellow predict the economic dominance of China? Does Viva la Vida foretell the passing of Christianity as the Church of Chris Martin sweeps all false religions away?
42 features some of the most puzzling lyrics he has ever penned -
Those who are dead are not dead
They’re just living in my head
It is not every human that ever lived that is in Chris’s brains, but the Biblical Prophets - Moses, Elijah, Frank, etc. Their work lives on in Chris.
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
The spell is the vision he had that marked his acceptance of his divinity. Since then, he is aware of his role, and is in constant communication with the prophets.
Time is so short and I’m sure
There must be something more… Oooooooooooooooh.
Some scholars of religion have posited the theory that the fear of death is the root of the religious impulse in Man - we live and we die, and it seems that there must be something more. The Greeks had their Elysian Fields, the Christians their Heaven, the Norse Valhalla. When Scientologists die, they go to a spaceship anchored off Alpha Centauri that resembles a nineteen-fifties ocean liner, where the food is bland and the rooms curiously expensive; Islams, on the other hand, go to a beautiful misty mountainside where they are serviced by veiled virgins whilst munching bacon sandwiches.
You thought you might be a ghost
You thought you might be a ghost
You didn’t get to heaven but you made it close
You didn’t get to heaven but you made it close
This bit actually has nothing to do with the rest - rather, Chris is spelling out his theory about his favourite TV show, Lost. According to a long-running theory, the Oceanic survivors are in purgatory, but they “made it close” to Heaven. Here Chris seems to be talking to the survivors of Oceanic 316, perhaps as the voice of Christian Shepherd.
One thing that cannot be denied, however - symbolism follows Chris Martin around like a poorly-concealed fart seeping out of a trouserleg.
Many years ago, when Drobbingdon founded the Church of Chris Martin, Coldplay had just released AROBTTH. The album was filled with cries of hope for spiritual rebirth, and the expectation of a coming messiah. But two years later, they released X&Y, and the message had become one of salvation.
At some point between the two albums, Chris Martin had become conscious of the fact that he was not waiting for a messiah, he WAS that messiah. Let’s look at the evidence.
(Click the embedded links for fuller exegeses of these songs.)
First, from AROBTTH… God Put A Smile
Where do we go, nobody knows
I’ve gotta say I’m on my way down
Chris feels that life has no meaning. Yet he remains aware of an imminant divinity -
God give me style and give me grace
God put a smile upon my face
A normal person, he is no better and no more informed than the rest of us -
Now when you work it out I’m worse than you
Yeah when you work it out, I want it too
Now when you work out where to draw the line
Your guess is as good as mine…
He’s still looking for lines and meanings in In My Place…
In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
The lines which he could not change are the lines of prophecy in the Old Testament. These appear to predict a coming saviour, or messiah.
I was lost, I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn’t have crossed
I was lost, oh yeah.
Chris wanders the Earth, (first World Tour!) waiting until the new Messiah appears -
The lyrics to the title song of Coldplay’s 2008 album, Viva la Vida, has left fans scratching their heads. The religious imagery was obvious enough, but the meaning of the song has remained obscure. But the CoCM has once again saved the day. Like a puzzle worthy of Leonardo da Vinci, Dan Brown or Tomb Raider, the song has revealed its secrets. Chris Martin is once again encoding hidden knowledge in the songs.
The big clue is in the album cover - by the artist Delacroix, it depicts the French Revolution. A revolution of the cross(de-la-croix) in France… Viva La Vida is the story of the shadowy secret society, the Priory of Sion. Previously, this information was only available in obscure books like Holy Blood, Holy Grail and Da Vinci’s Code, but now, the CoCM is PUBLISHING THE TRUTH.
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
The original king is King David, the King who united Israel and Judea and wrote the Psalms. The line he founded was seen as the legitimate line of Jewish kings. One of his notable descendants was Jesus.
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
Now the line is no longer in power, and has had to go underground.
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemies’ eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead, long live the king
The line first reappeared in medieval France. The Merovingians ruled from 486 to 751, when their rule was dramatically overthrown.
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
The castles of the Merovingians are legendary. They include Montsegur, Mont St Michele, Roslyn Chapel, Buckingham Palace, the White House, the Taj Mahal and probably the pyramids too.
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
Lot, whose wife was turned to a pillar of salt, was a nephew of the Patriarch, Abraham. In other words, the authority for the Merovingians comes from the line of Abraham himself.
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
Can this be anything except a reference to the Catholic Church? A faith founded in Jerusalem co-opted bythe militaristic Roman Empire, who actively evangelise throughout the world?
For some reason I can’t explain
Once you’d gone there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
With the end of the Merovingian rule, the bloodline went underground. They were forced to encode their doctrines in double meanings and codes in bizarre, obscure and apparently meaningless publications such as Les Dossiers Secret and the Daily Mail. Yet they were never able to explain the reason for the importance of the bloodline.
It was a wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was first published in 1982, and brought the Priory of Sion to the general public’s attention for the first time. Pierre Plantard, the alleged head of the order, claimed that the Priory of Sion existed to protect and promote the bloodline of the Merovingians.Moreover, Plantard was the Merovingian aire, and therefore the rightful king of France. And as a descendant of the Merovingians, he was also a descendant of Jesus.
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn’t believe what I’d become
The claims were widely criticised as a hoax, although the evidence was strong. Others claimed that Plantard wasn’t capable of coming up with such an elaborate hoax, and so that he had to be a front man, a puppet for those actually in control of the Priory.
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever want to be king?
Pierre Plantard came under a great deal of scrutiny. Many doubted his political agenda, and others doubted that he was capable of such an elaborate and detailed hoax. Yet few could doubt that his story resonated and had an unusual number of connections to established historical fact.
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
I know St Peter won’t call my name
Because these ideas are contrary to the doctrines of the faith founded upon Saint Peter’s name - Catholicism.
Never an honest word
Because everything has to be hidden in code, like the lyrics of this song.
But that was when I ruled the world.
Viva la Vida -“long live the life”, the living blood of Jesus Christ, the Life, the Truth and the Way.
Teh Interwebs is alight with the news that Chris Martin has hinted that Coldplay could split up by 2010. He said, “I’m 31 now and I don’t think bands should keep going past 33. So we’re trying to pack in as much as possible. Up until the end of next year, we’ll just go for it in every sense.”
For those of us whose SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING and ETERNAL LIFE IN THE HEREAFTER depends on this particular Indie quartet continuing to make records and spread the Gospel of Chris, this comes as somewhat of a shock. What is going on here?
DON’T PANIC! (lol!) It’s at times like these that you turn to the Church for guidance, and the CoCM is here for you.
COLDPLAY WON’T SPLIT UP - CHRIS IS ONCE AGAIN SENDING A MESSAGE TO THOSE WITH EARS TO HEAR.
Think about what he said for a moment - 33? Why 33?
WHO ELSE STOPPED PERFORMING AT 33?
33 is also the number of grades in Scottish Rite Freemasonry, a shadowy cabal who rule the world from behind the thrones. They can put a president in the White House, and they can kill a princess if they want to. Chris is once again coding HIDDEN INFORMATION in his lyrics, information that might see him silenced if it was more obvious.
WHO ELSE WAS SILENCED FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH?
But that’s not all…
Mark King was 33 when he wrote Lessons in Love, Chris’s fave record. Gwyneth Paltrow was 33 when they married. Between them, U2 own 33 houses. 33 is George Bush’s IQ. The Beatles’ albums play at 33 & 1/3 RPM. There are 33 possible combinations of bases in the human genome. Draw a line from Roslin Chapel to the Louvre in Paris, and it is EXACTLY 33 long. If you add 10 and 23, it equals 33. MERE COINCIDENCE?
This bit actually has nothing to do with the rest - rather, Chris is spelling out his theory about his favourite TV show, Lost. According to a long-running theory, the Oceanic survivors are in purgatory, but they “made it close” to Heaven. Here Chris seems to be talking to the survivors of Oceanic 316, perhaps as the voice of Christian Shepherd.
Many years ago, when Drobbingdon founded the Church of Chris Martin, Coldplay had just released AROBTTH. The album was filled with cries of hope for spiritual rebirth, and the expectation of a coming messiah. But two years later, they released X&Y, and the message had become one of salvation.
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail was first published in 1982, and brought the Priory of Sion to the general public’s attention for the first time. Pierre Plantard, the alleged head of the order, claimed that the Priory of Sion existed to protect and promote the bloodline of the Merovingians. Moreover, Plantard was the Merovingian aire, and therefore the rightful king of France. And as a descendant of the Merovingians, he was also a descendant of Jesus.
Never an honest word
Teh Interwebs is alight with the news that Chris Martin has hinted that Coldplay could split up by 2010. He said, “I’m 31 now and I don’t think bands should keep going past 33. So we’re trying to pack in as much as possible. Up until the end of next year, we’ll just go for it in every sense.”