Lovers In Japan
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Lovers In Japan is a track included on Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends and is the fourth single from that album.
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Lovers In Japan (Osaka Sun Mix)
The single version of the song, known as the "Osaka Sun Mix", also features on Coldplay's Prospekt's March EP. On Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, the song is combined with another, separate song, Reign Of Love, in the same track. The only difference between the album version and the Osaka Sun Mix is the inclusion of additional backing vocals by Chris Martin, heard during 1:45 - 1:53, and some different musical arrangements, beginning at the 2:56 mark.
Tracklisting
Promotional CD
- "Lovers in Japan (Osaka Sun Mix)" – 3:57
Music video
A music video for the single, directed by Mat Whitecross in London, was released on 31st October 2008 through iTunes Store, available free for a week on iTunes US and iTunes Canada. The video utilizes the "Osaka Sun Mix" version of the song.
The video shows the band playing in various locations while each member writes certain words from the lyrics in glowing neon on the screen.
Background
When asked about the development of the song, during a track-by-track reveal, Will Champion said: "We were in a studio in New York, this place called the Magic Shop, and it had this thing called a tack piano there, which sounds like an old honky-tonk piano, where you put little tacks in the hammers, so it sounds like more of a harpsichord almost. And so we wanted to use that kind of sound, but we didn't have a tack piano, so rather than sample it, we went and bought an old piano from the shop up the road from our studio, and we bought a load of tacks, and me and Guy and Jon spent a couple of hours pushing tacks into the piano hammers."
Lovers In Japan is a more upbeat, less dense number that sees Martin feeling less oppressed. Key lyric: "I have no doubt one day the sun will come out."
Entertainment Weekly printed an article on Coldplay and the new album with a new song slant on some of the songs - from the band's perspective. Here is the excerpt of Lovers In Japan: "No one associates romance with Japan," says Martin of the song that most resembles the familiar wistful Coldplay style. "Everyone thinks Japan is just about Hitachi and neon signs, but every time we're there, we see these amazing sunrises. It's very sexy."
On the album, Lovers in Japan shares track #5 with another, seperate song, Reign Of Love.
An acoustic recording of the song was given away exclusively to those who pre-ordered the album through iTunes.
Lyrics
Lovers Keep on the road you're on Runners Until the race is run Soldiers You've got to soldier on Sometimes Even the right is wrong They are turning my head out To see what I'm all about Keeping my head down To see what it feels like now But I have no doubt One day we're gonna get out Tonight Maybe we're gonna run Dreaming Of the Osaka sun Ohhhh Ohh, ohh Dreaming Of when the morning comes They are turning my head out To see what I'm all about Keeping my head down To see what it feels like now But I have no doubt One day the sun will come out...
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