Coldplay / Life In Technicolor + Violet Hill + In My Place

04.04.2009

(2009 / Live @ MTV World Stage / Part 1/5)

VIOLET HILL

It was a long and dark December

From the rooftops I remember

There was snow, white snow

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

If you love me, won't you let me know?

Was a long and dark December

When the banks became cathedrals

And a fox became God

Priests clutched onto bibles

Hollowed out to fit their rifles

And a cross held aloft

Bury me in armour

When I'm dead and hit the ground

My nerves are poles that unfroze

And if you love me, won't you let me know?

I don't want to be a soldier

Who the captain of some sinking ship

Would stow, far below.

So if you love me, why d'you let me go?

I took my love down to violet hill

There we sat in snow

All that time she was silent still

Said if you love me, won't you let me know?

If you love me, won't you let me know?

IN MY PLACE

In my place, in my place

Were lines that I couldn't change

I was lost, oh yeah

And I was lost, I was lost

Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed

I was lost, oh yeah

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

Yeah, how long must you pay for it?

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

For it

I was scared, I was scared

Tired and under-prepared

But I wait for it

And if you go, if you go

And leave me down here on my own

Then I'll wait for you, yeah

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

Yeah, how long must you pay for it?

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

For it

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

In my place, in my place

Were lines that I couldn't change

I was lost, oh yeah

Oh yeah