The Church of Chris Martin

Again taking “inspiration” from Radiohead, Coldplay released their new single free on the internet on Tuesday. Violet Hill is the first track to be released from Viva La Vida, and the first fruit of their sessions produced by Brian Eno, mastermind of U2’s Joshua Tree.

Musically, they’ve turned up the guitar and stuck 30 seconds of ambience on the front to make it long enough to be a single. This now means they are OFFICIALLY EDGY AND EXPERIMENTAL and NOT COMMERCIAL ANYMORE.

The key to understanding this song is to remember Jesus’s words upon the cross (according to Matthew and Mark, at least) - My Father, my Father, why have you forsaken me? As he dies upon the cross, Jesus asks God why he is being allowed to suffer. Likewise, in Violet Hill, Chris asks God why He still allows suffering in the world.

Violet Hill

Was a long and dark December

The long night of the soul, the darkness that has come upon the modern world.

From the rooftops I remember

As ever, Chris is looking down from on high, surveying the world. (See Gravity, Daylight.)

There was snow
White snow

Even in England, snow is ALWAYS white. Chris knows this (his parents are teachers). ITS A METAPHOR!

Clearly i remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze down below

When the future’s architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You’d better lie low

The powers-that-be, a circus of idiots who control the world, watch us through CCTV, the internet etc. We are hiding below, powerless to change anything, frozen.

Don’t think there’s such a word as “architectured”, however.

If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

The song is a plea from Chris to God, asking for a sign. In X&Y, he recieved his vision from God, but in the four years inbetween, nothing has changed. Poverty is not History, AIDS is still rife, and Noel Edmunds is STILL on TV.

Was a long and dark December

A reference to Chris’s fave painter, Thomas Kinkade.

When the banks became cathedrals
And the fog
Became God

In the previous Dark Age, the Catholic Church grew to be the greatest single power in the Medieval World. Many within the Vatican saw its primary purpose to be the raising of wealth, not the glory of God.

This is Chris’s second direct mention of God in his lyrics. The first, God Put a Smile Upon Your Face, shows a man who has just realised the spiritual power of the universe. Violet Hill suggests a far more jaded point of view. He must be fighting with his wife or something.

Priests clutched onto bibles
And went out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft

Millions were killed during the crusades. The Vatican was silent on the Holocaust. Noel Edmunds is STILL on the TV.

Bury me in honor
When i’m dead and hit the ground
A love back home unfolds

No idea.

If you love me
Won’t you let me know?

I don’t want to be a soldier
With the captain of some sinking ship
With snow, far below

In this incredibly layered metaphor, Chris says he will think for himself, refusing to adopt the values of CORRUPT LEADERS like George Bush who are like the Captains of a failing civilisation, as long as the people remain emotionally frozen subconsciously. You don’t get shit like that from Keane, do you?

So if you love me
Why’d you let me go?

I took my love down to Violet Hill

Violet Hill is a metaphor for the perfect world Chris has glimpsed in his visions. He tries to show us (”his love”) this world, what Jesus would have called “The Kingdom of Heaven”.

There we sat in snow
All that time she was silent still

The world is not ready. EXCEPT FOR THE CHURCH OF CHRIS MARTIN!

So if you love me
Won’t you let me know?

If you love me,
Won’t you let me know?

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BEHOLD - THE LAMB OF GOD!

Bono seems to have predicted the coming of Chris Martin, just as John the Baptist predicted the coming of Jesus, the prophet before him. If you don’t believe me, read these lyrics and then SHUT UP!!!

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

I have climbed highest mountain
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you

Saint Bono claims to have climbed the highest mountain. Yet Christ Martin asks “how long must I climb up this mountain of mine?” The mountain is OURSELFS, and if we think we can ever stop climbing, we are wrong.

I have run

He understands the importance of keeping fit. After all, obesity rates are rising.

I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Only to be with you

The city walls are St. Bono’s confusion - “Confusion never stops, Closing walls and ticking clocks” (AROBTTH 5:3)

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

Saint Bono is looking for the new Messiah (Chris Martin). He will be “On a hilltop, On a sky-rise, Like a firstborn Child, Defeat darkness, Breaking daylight” (AROBTTH 6:4)

I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire

He is talking about the Sacred Feminine here. Like in Da Vinci’s Code. Chris Martin is not afrain of his femine side, saying he loves his wife and being all melodramatic, but he’s masculine as well, getting mad and kicking off at photographers and that.

I have spoke with the tongue of angel’s - (1 Corinthians 6:1)
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night

Chris Martin acnowledges his good and bad sides too - “When I counted up my demons, Saw there was one for everyday, With the good ones on my shoulder, I drove the other ones away.” (PARACHUTES 10:1) - but he has sent his bad ones AWAY, not snuggled up to them like some sorta weird pervert!

I was cold as a stone
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

I believe in the kingdom come

Hidden track on X&Y!

Then all the color’s will bleed into one
Bleed into one

This is Nelson Mandelas’ dream of a RAINBOW NATION. That RASISM IS WRONG is one of the Sacred Tenets of the Church of Chris Martin. It’s just really not on.

Saint Bono was a lot younger when he wrote this song, but he still looks good for 65. He probably does a lot of exercise.

Well yes I’m still running

You broke the bond’s and you
Loosed the chain’s
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it

But Bono remains chained, powerless. He is not the one to loose ALL of our chains, release us from our shame. It is Chris Martin who carried the cross for us. This is true; Bono tells us ‘I believed it’.

But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for -
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…

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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 some of the books in the Old Testament. These appear to predict a coming saviour, or messiah. While Christians believe that Jesus was this Messiah, Jews are still waiting.

I was lost, oh yeah
I was lost, I was lost

Amazing Grace, a traditional hymn - “I was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.” Interestingly, it was the sweet sound of Coldplay that saved this wretch, too!

Crossed lines I shouldn’t have crossed

The Cross - need I say more? (Also remincent of Ghostbusters.)

I was lost, oh yeah.
Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

Not long. Chris, the Messiah, is with us TODAY. (The Jews are wrong.)

Yeah, how long must you pay for it?

Probably a reference to Christ throwing the money-changers from the Temple. However, some commentators have interprited this as a reference to the increasing popularity of peer-to-peer filesharing programs such as Napster & Kazaa.

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

Depends on your internet connection, really.

Oh for it
I was scared, I was scared

To me, it sometimes seems that we all bear the scars of modern life. On a deeper level, Chris has been scared by the jags on the crown of thorns and the nails through His hands.

Tired and under prepared
But I wait for it
If you go, if you go
Leave me down here on my own

“Down here” is, of course, to Chris, the Earth. He is looking up to his heavenly home and pleading with God, his Father, to give Him a chance to SAVE UOR SOULS. Consider Christ’s words upon the cross - “My Father, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Then I’ll wait for you (yeah)

Sing it
Please, please, please
Come back and sing to me
To me, me
Come on and sing it out, now, now
Come on and sing it out, to me, me
Come back and sing it

In my place, in my place
Were lines that I couldn’t change
And I was lost, oh yeah,

And here we come to the true meaning of ALL of Coldplay’s songs - OH YEAH. Because while the government, our parents and schoolteachers all say NO to us, Chris affirms and says YEAH. We DO live in a beautiful world.

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Come up to meet you
Tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are
I had to find you…
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh let’s go back to the start…
Running in circles; coming in tails
Heads on a silence apart

What most people don’t realise is that the song The Scientist is actually about Chris Martin’s younger brother Paul. While Chris was making his name as a GORGEOUS INTERNATIONAL POET AND VISIONARY, Paul was sitting an HND in electrical engineering at Hull University. He had always been interested in “questions of science; science and progress.” Chris obviously felt it was “such a shame for” them “to part“, and wrote this song.

Nobody said it was easy
It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

However, “nobody said it would be easy,” and Paul’s poor marks for second year (probably because of his insistance on “just guessing at numbers and figures“) meant that he had to “go back to the start” of the year and resit the exams. He passed second time around, and is now a fully qualified “scientist“.

I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart
Questions of science; science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

“Running in circles, chasing our tails” is probably a reference to Mitzi, a cheeky King Charles spaniel that the brothers shared as children.

Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

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