Coldplay: MX World Tour 2012

This programme contains some strong language

CHEERING AND WHISTLING

Every show is different.

When the lights go down,

that's 30,000 people's lives colliding for that one moment.

Everyone working is working for that moment.

Everyone watching is watching for that moment.

It's when you're all kind of in agreement about what you're all doing at that time.

So it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.

It's exciting when you're 15 and throw a party and people come,

so imagine what it's like on a daily basis to have 20,000 people coming.

It's crazy.

In the build-up to a concert, I just get really excited.

I'm aware of everyone running around, there's always a panic about something

or, you know, the rain is coming down or the wristbands aren't working

or Will has bench pressed too much and his abs have burst.

I don't know what the problems might be.

Guy's just become too handsome to be lit properly.

Or Jonny's fingers have started moving too fast

and he's going to play too many notes.

Whatever the problem is, I always enjoy watching it get solved before 9pm.

Before we go on stage, I think of the person in the top right-hand seat in the back of the room.

Like, what would they want to see?

So I forget about my own issues, if you see what I mean.

It's like you can flick a switch and just let yourself go.

When people show up now,

it's just like you can just get out of your head and go into your heart.

It's an amazing feeling.

SONG: "Mylo Xyloto"

SONG: "Hurts Like Heaven"

# Written in graffiti on a bridge in a park

# Do you ever get the feeling that you're missing the mark?

# It's so cold, it's so cold

# It's so cold, it's so cold

# Written up in marker on a factory sign

# I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine

# It's so cold, it's so cold

# It's so cold, it's so cold

# See the arrow they shot trying to tear us apart

# Fire from my belly and the beat from my heart

# Still I won't let go Still I won't let go

# Y-o-o-o-o-o-o-ou

# Yes, you do

# Oh, you use your heart as a weapon

# And it hurts like heaven

# On every street and every car and every surface are names

# And now the streets arise and we're writing the same

# Don't let them take control

# No, we won't let them take control

# Yes, I feel a little bit nervous

# Yes, I feel nervous and I cannot relax

# How come they're out to get us?

# How come they're out when they don't know the facts?

# So on a concrete canvas under cover of dark

# Concrete canvas I go making my mark

# Armed with the spray can soul

# I'll be armed with the spray can soul

# Y-o-o-o-o-o-o-ou

# Yes, y-o-o-o-o-o-o-ou

# Oh, yeah!

# Cos you use your heart as a weapon

# And it hurts like heaven... #

OK, boys!

# Whoo-hoo-hoo

# Whoo-hoo-hoo

# Yeah, it's true

# When you use your heart as a weapon

# It hurts like heaven... #

Paris!

It's going to be a fucking good one, boys. Let's go!

# Oh, it hurts like Oh, oh, oh, ooh

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# It hurts like heaven

# Oh, oh oooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

# It hurts like heaven. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Is there anybody out there?

Is there anybody out there?

I can't hear you. Is there anybody out there? Hello?

We wanted to take over the whole stadium

and make it feel like it was ours.

We'd painted absolutely everything.

We got all the guitars, all the amps,

these enormous 100-metre drapes that we put over the back, you know,

the whole of the stage floor is painted.

Everything is just covered in luminous paint.

We're playing the biggest gigs we've ever played

and we feel like we're doing it as well as we've ever done it.

INAUDIBLE

SONG: "Yellow"

# Look at the stars

# Look how they shine for you

# And everything you do

# Yeah, they were all yellow

# I came along

# I wrote a song for you

# And all the things you do

# And it was called Yellow

# And your skin

# Oh, yeah, your skin and bones

# Turn into something beautiful

# Do you know?

# You know I love you so

# You know I love you so... #

Turn the lights on, let's go! One, two, three, yo!

# Look at the stars

# Look how they shine for you

# And everything you do

# Yeah, they were all yellow

# I came along

# I wrote a song for you

# And all the things you do

# And it was called Yellow

# So then I took my turn

# Oh, what a thing to have done

# And it was all yellow... #

Let's sing this together, let's go! All right!

# And your skin

# Oh, yeah, your skin and bones

# Turn into something beautiful

# Do you know?

# You know I love you so

# You know I love you so

# I swam across

# I jumped across for you

# Oh, what a thing to do

# Oh, my love

# Cos you were all yellow

# I drew a line

# I drew a line for you... #

Everybody at the back.

# Oh, what a thing to do

# Oh, my, my love

# It was all yellow

# And your skin

# Oh, yeah, your skin and bones

# Turn into something beautiful

# Do you know?

# For you, I'd bleed myself dry

# For you, I'd bleed myself dry

# It's true

# Look how they shine for you

# Look how they shine for you

# Look how they shine for

# Look how they shine for you

# Look how they shine for you

# Look how they shine

# Look at the stars

# Look how they shine for you

# And everything that you do

# Yeah, they were all yellow. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you so much.

SONG: "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face"

# Where do we go? Nobody knows

# I've gotta say I'm on my way down

# God give me style and let me be

# Let me and my band play in the Stade de France in beautiful Paris

# I need a smile upon my face

# God put a smile upon my face

# Now let me see your hands in the whole place... #

Let's go!

We see you, we see you, come with us!

We see you at the back and on the right and on the left and on the floor!

Are you going to go fucking wild?

# Where do we go to draw the line?

# All the girls, scream if you're having a good time... #

SCREAMING

# Where do we go to fall from grace?

# Now all the boys, make some noise

# Like you're off your fucking face

# Now, when you work it out

# I'm worse than you

# Yeah, when you work it out

# I wanted to

# Now, when you work out where to draw the line?

# Your guess is as good as mine. #

OK, let's go!

Hands up, hands up!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I think the Mylo tour has been the best tour we've done.

From a production point of view,

from an organisational point of view,

it's been brilliant.

JSo, on this tour, we'll visit something like 24, 25 different countries,

playing 120, 125 shows.

We will have a lot of air miles by the end of it.

For me, I guess there are moments where

I still get the hairs on the back of my neck thing

walking out up to the X stage

when you get to actually walk past people and see faces.

Normally I'm sat right at the back,

and you can just see the sea in front of you.

When you're right up close, it definitely sinks in a bit more.

And that's a pretty amazing moment.

SONG: "Princess Of China"

Take it away!

# Oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Once upon a time, somebody ran

# Somebody ran away saying fast as I can

# I've got to go, I've got to go!

# Once upon a time we fell apart

# You're holding in your hands the two halves of my heart

# Oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh... #

Your turn, your turn, your turn!

-RIHANNA:

-# Oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Once upon a time, we burned bright

# Now all we ever seem to do is fight

# On and on

-BOTH:

-# And on and on and on...

# Once upon a time on the same side

# Once upon a time on the same side In the same game

# Now why'd you have to go?

# Have to go and throw water on my flame?

# I could've been a princess

# You'd be a king

# Could've had a castle

# And worn a ring

# But no

# You let me go

# I could've been a princess

# You'd be a king

# Could've had a castle

# And worn a ring

# But no

# You let me go

# And stole my star

# La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la

# You stole my star

# La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

# Yeah! #

Hello, Paris!

Let's go-o-o-o-o!

# Oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Cos you really hurt me

# No, you really hurt me

# Cos you really hurt me

# Oh-oh-oh

# No, you really hurt me

# Cos you really hurt me

# Ooh, you really hurt me

# Oh-oh-oh-oh

# Cos you really hurt me

# Ooh, you really hurt me. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Merci beaucoup.

-Rihanna, everybody. Unbelievable.

-Thank you.

Thank you, Ri-Ri.

SONG: "Viva La Vida"

-CROWD:

-# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh... #

Let's go.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh... #

You take it, you take it!

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

-# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh... #

-Louder, louder, louder!

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# I used to rule the world

# Seas would rise when I gave the word

# Now in the morning I sleep alone

# Sweep the streets I used to own

# I used to roll the dice

# Feel the fear in my enemies' eyes

# Listen as the crowd would sing

# Now the old king is dead Long live the king

# One minute I held the key

# Next the walls were closed on me

# And I discovered that my castles stand

# Upon pillars of salt And pillars of sand

# I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

# Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

# Be my mirror, my sword and shield

# My missionaries in a foreign field

# For some reason I can't explain

# Once you know there was never

# Never an honest word

# That was when I ruled the world

# It was the wicked and wild wind

# Blew down the doors to let me in

# The shattered windows And the sound of drums

# People couldn't believe what I'd become

# Revolutionaries wait

# For my head on a silver plate

# I'm just a puppet on a lonely string

# Oh, who would ever wanna be king?

# Now I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

# Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

# 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

# Never an honest word

# That was when I ruled the world... #

Lights on!

Come on, come on, come on!

OK, let 'em hear you!

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

# Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

# Be my mirror, my sword and shield

# My missionaries in a foreign field

# For some reason I can't explain

# I know Saint Peter will call my name

# Never an honest word

# That was when I ruled the world

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh... #

People singing along to our songs is one of the most important parts of the show.

In fact, any kind of interaction is kind of the most important part of the show, I think.

Rather than be this kind of dividing line between the band and the audience,

what we've learned over the years is that if there's this sense of community,

if everyone can sing along,

and it doesn't feel like there's a big divide

between the people in the audience and the band,

then everyone's going to have a better time.

We were building this idea for... It's about everyone.

It's not just about us

and the kind of really fanatical people at the front.

It's about getting everyone involved and so I think the wristband idea

is just a progression of that thought, you know. Everyone can be a part of the show.

We can make every single person part of the lighting production

by having a little light on their wrist.

Everybody, put your hands in the air.

Everybody, put your hands in the air.

Please, everybody, put your hands in the air.

OK, Will, switch 'em on. Let's go!

SONG: "Charlie Brown"

CHEERING

And everybody jump, jump, jump!

# Oooh

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# I stole a key

# Took a car downtown

# Where the lost boys meet

# Took a car downtown

# And took what they offered me

# To set me free

# I saw the lights go down

# At the end of the scene

# Saw the lights go down

# And they're standing in front of me

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# And in my scarecrow dreams

# When they smashed my heart into smithereens

# Be a bright red rose

# Come bursting the concrete

# Be a cartoon heart

# Whoa, and light a fire

# A fire, a spark

# Light a fire

# A flame in my heart

# We'll run wild

# We'll be glowing in the dark

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# Glowing in the dark

# Ooh-ooh-ooh

# Ahhh

# All the boys

# All the girls

# All that matters in the world

# All the boys

# All the girls

# All the madness that occurs

# All the highs

# All the lows

# As the room is spinning goes

# We'll run riot

# We'll start glowing in the dark... #

Hands up, everybody.

Unbelievable.

Thank you for letting us come to Paris and see something so beautiful as that.

Does anybody have any noise left?

CHEERING

Does anybody have any no-o-oise?

# So we soar

# Luminous and wired

# We'll be glowing in the dark. #

Thank you so much, everybody.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING

SONG: "Paradise"

OK, let's go.

# Whoo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo

# Whoo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo

# When she was just a girl

# She expected the world

# But it flew away from her reach

# So she ran away in her sleep

# Dreamed of para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Every time she closed her eyes

# Whoo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo

# Whoo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo

# When she was just a girl

# She expected the world

# But it flew away from her reach

# And the bullets catch in her teeth

# Life goes on

# It gets so heavy

# The wheel breaks the butterfly

# Every tear, a waterfall

# In the night, the stormy night

# She closed her eyes

# In the night, the stormy night

# Away she'd fly

# And dreamed of para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh

# She dreamed of para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh

# Sing la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la, la, la, la

# La, la, la, la

# So lying underneath those stormy skies

# She said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

# I know the sun must set to rise

# This could be para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh

# This could be para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh... # HE SHOUTS

# Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo

# This could be para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Para, para, paradise

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh

# This could be para, paradise

# Para, paradise

# Para, paradise

# Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh

# This could be para, paradise

# Para, paradise

# Para, paradise

# Oh-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh. #

You're incredible, you've been incredible. Thank you so much.

CHEERING

Three, four!

SONG: "Clocks"

# The lights go out and I can't be saved

# Tides that I tried to swim against

# Have brought me down upon my knees

# Oh, and I beg I beg and plead, singing

# Come out of things unsaid

# Shoot an apple off my head with a

# Trouble that can't be named

# Tigers waiting to be tamed, singing

# You are

# You are

# C-C-Confusion never stops

# The closing walls and the ticking clocks

# Gonna come back and take you home

# But I couldn't stop

# That you now know, so I

# Come out upon my seas

# I curse missed opportunities

# Am I a part of the cure?

# Or am I part of the disease?

# Singing

# You are

# You are

# You, you are

# You are

# Oh, nothing else compares

# Oh, nothing else compares

# Oh, nothing else compares

# Oh

# Oh

# Home, home

# Where I wanted to go

# Yeah, home, home

# Where I wanted to go. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We have an unbelievable job, we have an unbelievable crew,

we have unbelievable families, we have really unbelievable fans.

And so our job as a band is to try and become unbelievably good

and we're trying our best.

I would love it if, in 20 years, I would look back on this

and think that's when I feel like we started to become really good

or it's the beginning of a good patch for us,

where we started to really be free

and not worried about the people that don't like us,

but really grateful for the people that do.

We're trying to make colourful music that they like and we like,

where it's just freedom of expression.

I see this tour as, like, the last kind of shackles

being thrown off of being worried about what anyone thinks.

Through the course of Mylo Xyloto, I'd say that, as a band,

we're functioning better than we ever have.

We've been through all the break-ups and addictions and arguments

and financial disagreements,

or not working properly together in the studio

or falling out about which hours someone likes to work.

Cos, of course, like everyone else, negatives come up,

but we are really lucky that we've worked out how to deal with them

and help each other through them

and come out the other side a bit stronger.

It's wonderful.

It's that chemistry that people come to see as much as anything else,

because, at the end of the day, that's what makes a band special.

You're not prodigiously talented musicians, you're not virtuosos,

but you have a chemistry that no-one else in the world has.

So...you don't fuck with it.

By learning to sort of pick each other up,

I think it feeds back into the music

and into the concert in a really positive way.

We are so blessed to have a band

because it's sort of always fixing itself.

Everything feels possible and it's really...

so exciting to go to work every day.

SONG: "Fix You"

CHEERING

# When you try your best but you don't succeed

# When you get what you want but not what you need

# When you feel so tired but you can't sleep

# Stuck in reverse

# When the tears come streaming down your face

# Cos you lose something you can't replace

# When you love someone but it goes to waste

# What could be worse?

# Lights will guide you home

# And ignite your bones

# And I will try to fix you

# And high up above or down below

# When you were too in love to let it show

# Oh, but if you never try you'll never know

# Just what you're worth

# Oh

# And lights will guide you home

# And ignite your bones

# And I will try to fix you

# Tears stream down your face

# When you lose something you cannot replace

# Oh, and the tears stream down your face

# And I...

# Tears stream down your face

# I promise you I will learn from my mistakes

# Oh, and the tears stream down your face

# And I... #

Go! Listen.

-CROWD:

-# Lights will guide you home

# And ignite your bones

# And I will try to fix you. #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Merci beaucoup, thank you so much.

Thank you.

# Sing e-oh!

# E-oh!

# Sing e-oh-oh-oh!

# Oh-oh-oh!

# Sing e-o-o-o-o-oh... #

SONG: "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall"

# Sing e-oh!

# E-oh!

# Sing e-oh-oh-oh!

# Oh-oh-oh!

# I turn the music up

# I got my records on

# I shut the world outside

# Until the lights come on

# Maybe the street's alight

# Maybe the trees are gone

# But I'll feel my heart start beating

# To my favourite song

# And all the kids, they dance

# All the kids, all night

# As if Monday morning

# Seems another life

# I turn the music up

# I'm on a roll this time

# And heaven is in sight

# Whoo!

# Whoo!

# Whoo!

# I turn the music up

# I got my records on

# From underneath the rubble

# Sing a rebel song

# Don't wanna see another generation drop

# I'd rather be a comma than a full stop

# Maybe I'm in the black

# Or on my knees

# Maybe I'm in the gap

# Between the two trapezes

# But my heart is beating

# And my pulses start

# Cathedrals in my heart

# As we saw

# Whoa-oh-oh-oh

# This light

# I swear you

# Emerge blinking into

# To tell me it's all right

# As we soar walls

# Every siren is a symphony

# Every tear's a waterfall

# Is a waterfall

# Ah

# Is a waterfall

# Ah-ah-ah

# Is a waterfall

# Every teardrop a waterfall

# Ah-ah-ah

# So you can hurt

# Hurt me bad

# But still I'll raise

# Still I'll raise the flag

# It was a wa-a-a-a-a-aterfall

# A wa-a-a-a-a-aterfall

# Oh, ooh!

# Every tear

# Every tear

# Every teardrop is a waterfall

# Oh, ooh!

# Every tear

# Every tear

# Every teardrop is a waterfall... #

Sing it!

# Every tear

# Every tear

# Every teardrop is a waterfall

# Every tear

# Every tear

# Every teardrop is a waterfall. #

We have the greatest fans in the world.

Thank you for everything you're giving us.

Goodbye!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CROWD SINGS: "Viva La Vida"

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh

# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh... #

-What we doing?

-Goodbye.

LAUGHTER

Thank you for watching our film.

And good night.

# The birds they sang

# At break of day

# "Start again"

# I hear them say

# It's so hard to just walk away

# The birds they sang

# All a choir

# Start again a little higher

# It's a spark in a sea of grey

# The sky is blue

# Dreamed that lie till it's true

# Then takin' back

# The punch I threw

# My arms turn wings

# Oh, those clumsy things... #

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