Death And All His Friends
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Death And All His Friends is a track included on Coldplay's fourth album.
It is described as a straight-up rock tune with a riff that sounds ripped from the Doobie Brothers, piano, and, in the last section, flute.
It begins with Martin singing softly to a piano accompaniment before morphing into an exalted spirit-lifter that features a pounding piano, chiming guitars, yet more driving drums and a choir recorded in an art gallery in Barcelona.
Key lyric: "I don't want a cycle of recycled revenge, I don't want to follow death and all of his friends."
Lyrics
All winter we got carried Away over on the rooftops let's get married All summer we just hurried So come over just be patient and don’t worry So come over just be patient and don’t worry So come over, just be patient and don’t worry And don’t worry No I don’t want to battle from beginning to end I don’t want a cycle of recycled revenge I don’t want to follow death and all of his friends No I don’t want to battle from beginning to end I don’t want a cycle of recycled revenge I don’t want to follow death and all of his friends.
Background to LP4
In July 2007 Coldplay revealed that the album seemed to be shaping up with Hispanic influences after having recorded in churches and other areas in Latin America and Spain, such as Barcelona. On their website, the band also described taking acoustic guitars and basic recording equipment to churches and experimenting with particular sounds. However, in the same note, it was stressed that the influence was not in any specific sound but a general feel to the songs taken as a whole.
On September 5, 2007, Coldplay revealed the track names of the new record on their website. It will be a short record (approx. 42 minutes) with approximately 9 songs, which will be chosen out of the following:
- Lost!
- Cemeteries Of London
- Violet Hill
- Poppy Fields
- 42
- Yes!
- Leftrightleftrightleft
- Rainy Day
- Famous Old Painters
- Glass Of Water
- Prospekt's March
- Lovers In Japan
- Strawberry Swing
- Song For The Escapist
- Death And All His Friends
- Life In Technicolor
- Chinese Sleep Chant
- Reign Of Love
- Postcards From Far Away
- Lukas
- The Goldrush
- Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground
Four of the songs were written at various places throughout the list, but they were entirely blacked out, either indicating that they had been taken out of consideration, or the titles were not meant to be known. One of these blacked out names may be the name of the fourth album, as previous tracks have been for Parachutes, A Rush Of Blood To The Head and X&Y.
| Chris Martin | Guy Berryman | Jonny Buckland | Will Champion |
| Phil Harvey | Brian Eno | Ken Nelson |
| EPs: Safety EP | Brothers & Sisters EP | The Blue Room EP | Norwegian Live EP |
| Albums: Parachutes | A Rush of Blood to the Head | X&Y | Viva la Vida Or Death And All His Friends |
| Live albums: Live 2003 |
| Compilations: The Singles 1999-2006 |
| Unofficial collections: A Rush Of B-Sides To Your Head | Castles | After After Before |
| Singles: Ode to Deodorant | Brothers & Sisters | Shiver | Yellow | Trouble | Don't Panic | In My Place | The Scientist | Clocks | God Put a Smile upon Your Face | Speed of Sound | Fix You | Talk | The Hardest Part | What If | Violet Hill | Viva La Vida |
| Tours: A Rush Of Blood To The Head Tour | Twisted Logic Tour | Latin America Tour 2007 | Viva La Vida Tour |
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