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 __**YELLOW**__ __//Coldplay //__

__**SUMMARY:**__

 * Introduction to the song
 * My choice
 * My feelings towards the song
 * Meaning of the lyrics
 * Lyrics

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Coldplay wrote this song in 2000, and released it in their album Parachutes. Coldplay wrote this song when they were working in Wales, producing their album; they started writing it one night when they were looking at the clear sky of the city, and you could see perfectly the yellow stars shining. Although they took the idea from the beautiful sky and Chris Martin’s unrequited love, he explained that the repetition of “yellow” through out the song is because it just sounded right, and no other colour __would match with it__. ======

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Yellow reached number four on UK Single Charts, and won a Grammy for Best Music Alternative Album, and was nominated for Best Rock Song, but lost against “Drops of Jupiter” by Train. ======

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Actually, I’ve never been an enormous Coldplay fan, but this summer I started __working at a__ clothes shop. On my first day I was very __nervous I wa__s just a child compared to the other workers that were far older than me and they already knew each other. I thought I wouldn’t be accepted at all, but I got it all wrong, they accepted me as one of their own, they treated me like an adult, and they were just incredible. I had a great time with them, there wasn’t a day were we didn’t burst out laughing, they __taught a great amount of lessons__ about everything, we just shared our experiences mutually and when we were together we acted as if we knew each other from years ago. ======

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When we were working, because we looked after the whole shop, we were also in charge of the background music of the store, so we __took up turns__ of what music to put on, and one day I was attending a client when I heard this song. When I finished, I went upstairs asking my working mate the name of the song, I just loved it. He told me the name of the song and the group, then he told me Coldplay was one of his favourite group, we started talking and minutes later my other working mate came upstairs saying she loved this song. So, since that day we played this song everyday at work, and I just fell in love with this song and I can’t get tired of it. ======



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__I normally listen to this song when I’m stressed, because the tone relaxes me, it has just a soft and calm tone, and I listen carefully to the beautiful lyrics. That talk about doing everything and giving everything for a person, and I kind of identify with them, there are words and phrases that stand out, and that they create a strong impact on you when you listen to them.__ For example my favourite phrase of all the song is **“for you I bleed myself dry” **. These are just so strong words that reflect the fact of giving everything to someone and doing the unthinkable for that person. ======

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Also when I listen to them they remind me of summer times, when I had no responsibilities, when I wasn’t stressed at all, I remember my good times at work and all those moments, that I hadn’t experienced before, and I’m very grateful for all those new anecdotes I’ve owned this summer. ======

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**//The whole video shows Chris Martin walking alone across a beach in England.// **

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=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">After listening to this song hundreds of times, __I still haven’t reached to know the exact meaning of the word yellow__, I think it is related to the stars colour and how they shine; so, I think he may refer it as a symbolic colour with a caring meaning. But after all I believe this song shows a beautiful feeling, it talks about an important person in his life, a person he truly loves and that he would do anything for her; he also explains how everything turns around her, how the stars shine for her, that she is all he needs and in order to get her he would do the craziest things, without caring. =

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: justify;">__**LYRICS:**__

Look at the stars,

look how it shines for you oh

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.

Your skin,

oh yeah, your skin and bones

turn into something beautiful,

and 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.

'Cos you were all yellow,

I drew a line,

I drew a line for you.

Oh, what a thing to do

and it was all yellow.

And your skin,

oh yeah, your skin and bones

turn into something beautiful.

And you know

for you I bleed myself dry,

for you I 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 all the things that you do

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