Music T Friday: Coldplay

As I write this, 27 families in Connecticut are trying to figure out how they will move on with their lives. I'll keep this short.

I saw Coldplay in concert at Rogers Arena on June 20, 2009. We had seats behind the stage and that was pretty awesome because they were filming the show for their DVD release and, from our seats, we could see a lot of the effects up close that they were staging for the cameras. Most memorable was the balloons they released into the crowd for "Yellow"

And that's about all I have to say for this today's post. Anything more would feel frivolous. As the news continues to come in from Newtown, Coldplay's solemn lyrics and plaintive melody in "The Scientist" seems appropriate for the day. If only all those families could "go back to the start"...

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 up tails  

Heads on a science apart
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
 

I was just guessing at numbers and figures  

Pulling the puzzles apart  

Questions of science, science and progress 

Do not speak as loud as my heart
 

But 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 

I'm going back to the start