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Anonymous No.24572703 [Report] >>24572745 >>24572790 >>24574144 >>24574162 >>24574239 >>24574284 >>24574302 >>24574364 >>24575600 >>24575836 >>24578018 >>24578791
>Be my mirror, my sword and shield
>My missionaries in a foreign field
>For some reason I can't explain
>I know Saint Peter won't call my name

Is Coldplay /lit/?
Anonymous No.24572724 [Report] >>24573111 >>24573877 >>24574306 >>24574413 >>24577425
I hear Jackie Chan singing
Omae wamu Shinderu
For some reason I can't explain
Why we live in a society
Where gamers
Don't rule the world
Anonymous No.24572745 [Report] >>24572773 >>24573920 >>24578018
>>24572703 (OP)
Viva la vida is /lit/ kino, unironically.
Anonymous No.24572773 [Report]
>>24572745
Yeah it reads like a poem.
Anonymous No.24572790 [Report]
>>24572703 (OP)
>Truth is most beautiful undraped; and the impression it makes is deep in proportion as its expression has been simple. This is so, partly because it then takes unobstructed possession of the hearer's whole soul, and leaves him no by-thought to distract him; partly, also, because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or cheated by the arts of rhetoric, but that all the effect of what is said comes from the thing itself. For instance, what declamation on the vanity of human existence could ever be more telling than the words of Job? Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
>For the same reason Goethe's naïve poetry is incomparably greater than Schiller's rhetoric. It is this, again, that makes many popular songs so affecting. As in architecture an excess of decoration is to be avoided, so in the art of literature a writer must guard against all rhetorical finery, all useless amplification, and all superfluity of expression in general; in a word, he must strive after chastity of style. Every word that can be spared is hurtful if it remains. The law of simplicity and naïveté holds good of all fine art; for it is quite possible to be at once simple and sublime.
Anonymous No.24572801 [Report]
> Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Anonymous No.24573111 [Report]
>>24572724
lol
Anonymous No.24573877 [Report]
>>24572724
its "omae wa mou shinderu"
Anonymous No.24573920 [Report]
>>24572745
You right. Potent album
Anonymous No.24574144 [Report]
>>24572703 (OP)
i like that one religious madonna song where its really just about aggressively sucking a cock and taking a throatpie. very pious
Anonymous No.24574162 [Report] >>24574341
>>24572703 (OP)
Eh, sort of, it's a fine record arguably with zero skips but Achtung / Zooropa / arguably Pop era U2 crushes this record on all fronts, live performances in particular. Fuckin balloons.
Anonymous No.24574239 [Report] >>24574304 >>24574336 >>24574355
>>24572703 (OP)
sounds like he failed his test.
frankly, it always seems like there are more stories of nobles failing their kingdoms than transcending them; damn shame...
Anonymous No.24574284 [Report]
>>24572703 (OP)
Yeah pop music has basically taken the role of lyric poetry in the common culture.
Anonymous No.24574292 [Report] >>24577418
i get my poetry from mainstream boomer rock
Anonymous No.24574302 [Report]
>>24572703 (OP)
The Minecraft one is nice. Honestly when I first heard the song I thought it was about Napoleon or some other king because the French revolution is severely under taught in america
Anonymous No.24574304 [Report]
>>24574239

It's an endlessly failing task for us. Still has to be done.
Anonymous No.24574306 [Report]
>>24572724
what books are /calm/ core
Anonymous No.24574336 [Report]
>>24574239
What is this from?
Anonymous No.24574341 [Report] >>24577811
>>24574162
>Can we talk about U2 instead
Anonymous No.24574355 [Report] >>24574372 >>24575590
>>24574239
Also where does the year and a day motif come from? I noticed that in Gawains story.
Anonymous No.24574364 [Report] >>24574377 >>24575822
>>24572703 (OP)
You know who has /lit/ lyrics? Jethro Tull. Something like Something's On the Move could stand on its own as print poetry.
Anonymous No.24574372 [Report] >>24574380 >>24575590
>>24574355
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AYearAndADay
Anonymous No.24574377 [Report] >>24574381
>>24574364
>Can we talk about Jethro Tull instead
Anonymous No.24574380 [Report] >>24575590
>>24574372
but why? What's the significance in folklore and myths?
Anonymous No.24574381 [Report]
>>24574377
Just continuing the theme of /lit/ lyrics. Not opposed to continued Coldplay discussion.
Anonymous No.24574413 [Report]
>>24572724
gem
Anonymous No.24575088 [Report]
Coldplay is shit tier
Anonymous No.24575543 [Report]
bump
Anonymous No.24575555 [Report]
>I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls
>Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls
>But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
>And that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:
Anonymous No.24575558 [Report] >>24575626
>The sun is beginning to shine on me
>But it's not like the sun that used to be
>The party's over and there's less and less to say
>I got new eyes
>Everything looks far away
Anonymous No.24575590 [Report]
>>24574355
>>24574372
>>24574380
that you make the right choice for you and your people with your allotted time and responsibility here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo#Legacy
>The modern narrativization of the legend focuses on three main motifs: sacrifice, betrayal and heroism, exemplified respectively by Prince Lazar choosing a "heavenly kingdom" over an "earthly kingdom"
Anonymous No.24575600 [Report]
>>24572703 (OP)
>Pete
>Audrey
>Jamie
>Joanna
>Barney
>Theo
>Philly
>Simone
>Matt
>Tommy
>Jim
>JUDIE
Anonymous No.24575626 [Report] >>24575713
>>24575558
>There must be some kind of way outta here
>Said the joker to the thief
>There's too much confusion
>I can't get no relief
everyone thought that it was the Good Thief talking to the Bad Thief, but the Joker is Christ:
>Business men, they drink my wine
>Plowmen dig my earth
>None will level on the line
>Nobody offered his word
That's Christ's Wine and His Earth.
He's (Rightfully) offended that humanity doesn't understand His Value.
>No reason to get excited
>The thief, he kindly spoke
>There are many here among us
>Who feel that life is but a joke
>But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
>And this is not our fate
>So let us stop talkin' falsely now
>The hour's getting late...
How did the Good Thief become the First in Paradise? Just skipped having to harrow Hades.
I posit that the Father was with the Son and the Holy Spirit together as The Theophanes/Trinity at Golgotha that Weekend...
Anonymous No.24575713 [Report] >>24575738
>>24575626
for example, why do we keep the bad thief on the cross?
the lack of chirality would be asymmetrical on many levels
Anonymous No.24575738 [Report]
>>24575713
just throwing it out there blowin' in the wind...
Anonymous No.24575789 [Report]
>I USED TO ROLL THE DICE
>FEEL THE FEAR IN MY ENEMY'S EYES
Anonymous No.24575822 [Report] >>24575833
>>24574364
Thick as a Brick is Jethro Tull poking fun at themselves and all the rest of the self important prog-rockers who think middle school poetry and multi part suites are enough to make them “artists”, much like the jist behind The Beatles’ “I am the walrus”. Not saying JT wasn’t talented as all get out, but saying “their lyrics could be put in a book of print poetry” is to be the butt of the joke. Then again, maybe the joke is on snobs who say rock CAN’T be art, but at this point rock’s been around long enough that its marits are a given
Anonymous No.24575833 [Report]
>>24575822
That they poked fun at the idea doesn't mean it's not true- some of it could.
Anonymous No.24575836 [Report]
>>24572703 (OP)
Coldplay songs all sound nearly identical
Anonymous No.24575840 [Report] >>24576213
King crimson has some rather /lit/ lyrics. Hardly a better contender

Night enfolds her cloak of holes
Around the river meadow
Old moon-light stalks by broken ploughs
Hides spokeless wheels in shadow
Sentries lean on thorn wood spears
Blow on their hands, stare eastwards

Burnt with dream and taut with fear
Dawn's misty shawl upon them
Three hills apart great armies stir
Spit oath and curse as day breaks
Forming lines of horse and steel
By even yards march forward
Anonymous No.24575927 [Report]
A little bit of Monica in my life
A little bit of Erica by my side
A little bit of Rita's all I need
A little bit of Tina's what I see
A little bit of Sandra in the sun
A little bit of Mary all night long
A little bit of Jessica, here I am
A little bit of you makes me your man
Anonymous No.24576213 [Report]
>>24575840
Beat me to it, Lizard is peak /mu/lit/
Anonymous No.24576616 [Report]
**test**
Anonymous No.24576626 [Report] >>24577360 >>24577709
What are your favorite poems, /lit/?
My favorite probably is "a-sitting on a gate"/"I give thee all, I can no more" in the chapter "its my own invention" from through the looking glass
Anonymous No.24577360 [Report] >>24578750
>>24576626
The giving tree
Anonymous No.24577418 [Report]
>>24574292
>that profile
Handsome fella Guenon. Almost resembles Dante
Anonymous No.24577425 [Report]
>>24572724
KEK
Anonymous No.24577709 [Report] >>24578752
>>24576626
La Infana Raso, especially the first song.
Anonymous No.24577811 [Report]
>>24574341
Same producer - which is all that matters
Anonymous No.24577885 [Report] >>24578745
Well, have you heard about the painter, Vincent van Gogh
Who loved colour and who let it show?
And in the museum, what have we here?
The most soulful painter since Jan Vermeer

And he loved, he loved life so bad
His paintings had twice the colour other paintings had
So bad that the world had to know
He loved colour and he let it show

In the Amsterdam museum I was feeling bad
Been looking for a way not to be so sad
I felt the feeling from the paintings on the wall
And Vincent van Gogh was with me in the hall

And he loved, he loved life that way
His painting said things that paintings seldom say
So bad that the world had to know
He loved colour and let it show

Have you seen those last paintings by van Gogh?
Did the sorrow show?
Did it hurt you from the wall?
Did it follow you down the hall?

Because he loved, he loved life like that
You look at those last paintings and you'll get kind of sad
So bad that the world had to know
He loved colour and he let it show

Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Anonymous No.24578018 [Report]
>>24572703 (OP)
>>24572745
Agreed. It's such a random banger from a band that had zero need to make one
Anonymous No.24578745 [Report]
>>24577885
Well look! See there's an abominable snowman in the supermarket!
And apparently the housewives have never seen anything like that before.
Hear the housewives complaining to the manager:
"Get that snow thing out of this store!"

Abominable snowman in the market!
That's right, you heard me right, gang.
And the housewives, they all remark, "It looks like a dirty marshmallow with fangs!"
See, there's an abominable snowman in the market
and he's down by the peas and carrots.
Abominable snowman in the market, and they cannot chase him away.

See, there's an abominable snowman in the market, and the situation is grave.
The housewives hurt and confuse him, and I can't stand to see him treated this way.
There's an abominable snowman in the market and I think he's a real nice guy.
I like the snowman, I want to help him, but I don't want to see him hurt this way.

Look.
We got to talk to this abominable snowman, man.
And we have to say something that he can understand.
That's right.

There's an abominable snowman in the market, and he's doing better every day.
I know it's helped to have a more tolerant feeling and I like to see him treated this way.
Well there's an abominable snowman in the market and he's down by the peas and carrots.
Abominable snowman in the market
and that is what I now say.
What you say about a
Abominable snowman in the market! Woah oh woah-oh-ooo-oh

Well there's an abominable snowman in the market
Down by the peas and carrots.
Abominable snowman in the market, he just arrived by plane yesterday.
Abominable snowman in the market, and the housewives never seen something like that before.
Housewives treat him like a stranger
They want him away from the supermarket door.
Anonymous No.24578750 [Report]
>>24577360
Just read it, good taste.
Anonymous No.24578752 [Report] >>24578857
>>24577709
I just googled it and i dont speek esperanto (THANK THE LORD) but also a shame
Anonymous No.24578791 [Report] >>24579034 >>24579045 >>24579060
>>24572703 (OP)
I like Coldplay except for this song

It isn't really about anything. The lyrics are suggestive of something important and grand but it's all vapor. "Woah dude, like, life and shit"
Anonymous No.24578857 [Report]
>>24578752
There's an English translation, though it doesn't fully measure up to the original.
Anonymous No.24578923 [Report]
I heard Coldplay at the bank yesterday. Made me sleepy. No idea what song it was, I don't usually listen to them.
Anonymous No.24579034 [Report]
>>24578791
Whit? Its about a guy who gained everything, but then watched it all fall apart after losing the one person who was with him all the way. Its defintely about something even if it is vague and the imperial imagery accentuates the how powerless he is without the person he lost
Anonymous No.24579045 [Report] >>24579285
>>24578791
The strings are so nice though. Coldplay are very much a band you can only listen to a couple songs by at a time imo. They don't have enough substance to sustain attention over an entire album.

Their early music really feels like listening to a Bends era Radiohead song except the song never gets to the emotional and musical peak Radiohead always does. Its like if you took just the verses and a bridge with no chorus or something kek. It has no punch at all, so it really just depends on being pretty and atmospheric. Clocks is probably the archetypal Coldplay song for this reason
Anonymous No.24579060 [Report] >>24579281
>>24578791
It's literally about the French Revolution of 1848 you RETARD
Anonymous No.24579238 [Report]
behold, the miracle of 20th century music
Anonymous No.24579281 [Report]
>>24579060
No it isn't dumbfuck. It references multiple historical points. It doesn't mean anything. Are you stupid?

Bro who knew that Rome and Jerusalem were both in France during the revolution woah how did they do that

Viva la Vida is like Pompeii... A grand historical vision bereft of actual content. These sorts of works are always going to be attractive to people now that we stand on the precipice of history
Anonymous No.24579285 [Report]
>>24579045
I do like that the song has an interesting pace to it, it is a perfect execution of whatever it is supposed to be. I just couldn't buy into it fully.

And I agree. I like Coldplay but it boils down to a very particular selection of songs.