Coldplay carry the world
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In their latest single, “Atlas,” Coldplay sing about how you have to carry on, even when life seems so tough that it feels like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
This week’s Karaoke Korner takes a look at some vocabulary words used in the lyrics.
ABOUT COLDPLAY
Name: Coldplay
Nationality: English
Style: Pop, rock
Albums: Mylo Xyloto (2011), Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), X&U (2005), A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), Parachutes (2000)
Label: EMI, Parlophone
In brief: Coldplay formed in 1996 with members Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion. Their debut album, Parachutes, was released in 2000. Throughout the decade that followed, Coldplay released a string of smash hit singles, including “Yellow,” “In My Space,” “Fix You” and “Princess of China.” Coldplay have so far won seven Grammy Awards and have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. Coldplay were also voted one of the top five bands of the 2000s by Rolling Stone magazine readers in 2009. They recently released their new single, “Atlas,” which the band wrote specially for the movie, Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
If you like Coldplay, check out: Radiohead, Snow Patrol and U2
Website: www.coldplay.com
“Atlas”
By Coldplay
Some saw the sun
Some saw the smoke
Some heard the gun
Some bent the bow
Sometimes the wire
Must tense for the note
Caught in the fire
Say oh, we’re about to explode
Chorus
Carry your world
I’ll carry your world
Carry your world
I’ll carry your world
Some far away
Some search for gold
Some dragon to slay
Heaven we hope is just up the road
Show me the way, Lord
Because I am about to explode
(Chorus)
Carry your world
And all your hurt
Exercises
Specify whether each of the following words used in the lyrics is used as a noun, verb or adverb.
1. sometimes …………………
2. tense …………………
3. explode …………………
4. dragon …………………
Vocabulary
- bow (n): a weapon used for shooting arrows, consisting of a long curved piece of wood with a tight string joining its ends
slay (v): to kill somebody or something in a war or a fight
Atlas (n): in ancient Greek mythology, a titan from the beginning of time who held up the planet on his shoulders
