>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/?

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

>>24572703 (OP)
Viva la vida is /lit/ kino, unironically.

>>24572745
Yeah it reads like a poem.

>>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.

> Roman cavalry choirs are singing

>>24572724
lol

>>24572724
its "omae wa mou shinderu"

>>24572745
You right. Potent album

>>24572703 (OP)
i like that one religious madonna song where its really just about aggressively sucking a cock and taking a throatpie. very pious

>>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.

>>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...

>>24572703 (OP)
Yeah pop music has basically taken the role of lyric poetry in the common culture.

i get my poetry from mainstream boomer rock

>>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

>>24574239

It's an endlessly failing task for us. Still has to be done.

>>24572724
what books are /calm/ core

>>24574239
What is this from?

>>24574162
>Can we talk about U2 instead

>>24574239
Also where does the year and a day motif come from? I noticed that in Gawains story.

>>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.

>>24574355
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AYearAndADay

>>24574364
>Can we talk about Jethro Tull instead

>>24574372
but why? What's the significance in folklore and myths?

>>24574377
Just continuing the theme of /lit/ lyrics. Not opposed to continued Coldplay discussion.

>>24572724
gem

Coldplay is shit tier

bump

>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:

>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

>>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"

>>24572703 (OP)
>Pete
>Audrey
>Jamie
>Joanna
>Barney
>Theo
>Philly
>Simone
>Matt
>Tommy
>Jim
>JUDIE

>>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...

>>24575626
for example, why do we keep the bad thief on the cross?
the lack of chirality would be asymmetrical on many levels

>>24575713
just throwing it out there blowin' in the wind...

>I USED TO ROLL THE DICE
>FEEL THE FEAR IN MY ENEMY'S EYES

>>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

>>24575822
That they poked fun at the idea doesn't mean it's not true- some of it could.

>>24572703 (OP)
Coldplay songs all sound nearly identical

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

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

>>24575840
Beat me to it, Lizard is peak /mu/lit/

**test**

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

>>24576626
The giving tree

>>24574292
>that profile
Handsome fella Guenon. Almost resembles Dante

>>24572724
KEK