what music now: coldplay

Coldplay's latest CD,"X&Y", contains some gems, at least based on demos and live songs. One of them is "White Shadows", a song about getting back to the simplicity of youth. The other one is "Talk", one of the saddest songs I've heard about alienation and separation. I'm in the middle of creating a list of songs, to serve as my soundtrack to the movie Closer, and "Talk" will certainly be part of that. Of course, Damien Rice' "The Blower's Daughter" will be there also.

I wish those guys would lighten up a bit, but here are some of the lyrics from these two songs:

Talk
Under the great North Star
Try to work out where you are
In the silence of the sea
I don't know where I'll be

In the future, in the past
Going nowhere...much too fast
When I go there, go with me
When I go there, go with me

Cause I don't know where I'm going and I wanna talk
I feel like I'm going where I've been before
And I wanna talk

....

I tried but I can't get through
I'm trying to get to you
But you're difficult to reach
Won't you talk to me


White Shadows
When I was a young boy
I tried to listen
And I wanna feel like that
Little white shadows
Of sparkle and glisten
I'm part of a system plan

Do you ever feel like
There's something missing
Thinks you'll never understand
Little white shadows
Blinking and glisten
Part of a system plan

When all our fears are waking up
All the space they're taking up
So I cannot hear you breaking up

Maybe you got what you wanted
Maybe you stumbled upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state
Maybe you got, it you see it
Maybe if you say it, you mean it
When you find that you keep me
In a permanent state ...a permanent

When I was a young boy
I tried to listen
I don't think I'll ever feel like that
Part of the human race
All of the stars and outer space
Part of the system plan

When all our fears are waking up
And all the space, they're taking up
I said I cannot hear you breaking up

Maybe you got what you wanted
Maybe you'll stumble upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state
Maybe you got it, you see it
Maybe if you say it, you'll mean it
When you find that you keep me
In a permanent state ...a permanent state..

I swear I'm only seeing faces
Tired of the human races
Oh, answer now is what I need
See it in a new sun rising
See it breaking on your horizon
Oh, come on love, stay with me