Viva La Vida - Coldplay LYRICS ON SCREEN

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[butterflyparis]

Hi from 2020 :) Hope you guys are doing well!

[radithyajoenan]

Fun fact

0:24 "sweep the streets i used to own" was a reference to the last emperor of Qing (China) Dynasty Pu Yi who spent his last years as a commoner in Beijing under the communist regime.

On his first day of work as a street sweeper, he was lost and told passersby, "I'm Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty. I'm staying with relatives and can't find my way home."

[Listed_Gamer]

As they say "once you reach the top, the only way left is down"

[violetskies]

This song gives me chills. I can’t help but picture burning towns, crumbling statues, blood seeping through clean linen, stormclouds overtaking a once bright sky, scars and faces lined with dirt and old burdens, white marble floors strewn with bodies and a broken crown. White roses stained with blood, their petals falling to the ground. The last sunset you ever see, blood red, the golden sun glinting between the pillars as your vision fades.

[beeisdumbaf]

When you’re number one in Kahoot but then you get one question wrong:

[michaeladickey]

My best friend died a few days ago due to her asthma. She absolutely love this song. I played this song at her funeral. Every time I hear this on the radio, I always cry. Miss you Mia.

[Oneshotforever]

Its been almost 10 years....and we still remember when we used to rule the world

[zoombini]

“Sweep the streets I used to own” actually references Puyi, who used to be a 6 year old Chinese emperor. He then became figurehead of a Japanese puppet state during ww2. Then after that he became a street sweeper.

[real_raveline]

When you lost your progress in CoolMath games

[rubiprieto]

I love this song. If you know French History, then this song has an entirely different meaning. Like, you can hear the different point of views as the song goes on. First it's Louis XVI, there's some Marie Antoinette in there, Robespierre, and the people who fought for the revolution, and even Bonaparte. Their mistakes and how they felt like they were on top of the world, becoming what they once fought to end.

Louis and Marie were kids when they married each other, forced by her mother who had no qualms about broadening her power even if her own child payed the price. Louis hadn't the slightest idea of how to rule a kingdom, he was weak and he acknowledged it. "Revolutionaries wait, for my head on a silver platter.
Just a puppet in a lonely string. Oh who would ever want to be king?"

Robespierre, was corrupt since the beginning but the people were blinded by hope. "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 go there was never, never an honest word. And that was when I ruled the world" he was everything those peasants aspired for in a leader, their beacon of light. And in the end, when he alone possessed the power, he became the monster the people had been desperately trying to slay this whole time.

Napoleon, great battle tactician and military man. And a generous leader as well. It is an irony that he was loved by the French people when he named himself Emperor, sole ruler of the country. "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 enemy's eyes.
Listen as the crowd would sing.
Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!" He got so drunk in that self-constructed power that he himself destroyed it. He went from being the most feared man in Europe to be the most scorned. And after being loved by so many, he died alone, not even in the lands of the empire he had cherished so much.

And the people, always tripping on the same rock. They got rid of the royalty, because they were weak. But trusted Robespierre, who only used their aspirations to rise to power. Then Napoleon, who was a man never seen before. He listened to the people, took care of his soldiers, gave men of all social status an education. He introduced civic laws and finally earned respect for France, but he fell and they fell along with him. Restricted by Russia, England, Prussia, and others. "It was a wicked and wild wind. Blew down the doors to let me in. Shattered windows and the sound of drums. People couldn't believe what I'd become." The people finally rebelled, and they won.
"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." They held the keys to their freedom, to the future they wanted. But they trusted the wrong people and realised too late that maybe they hadn't won at all.

[mttynan]

When you see your last year teacher having fun with their new class

[bgmarshall]

Nice paraody of ""Fallen Kingdom" a minecraft paraody of coldplay's Viva la Vida (music video)"

[macaron]

coronavirus got me listening to my nostalgia playlist when times were easier

[snhojpoj]

"i know St. Peter won't call my name" is a reference to the belief that St. Peter guards the gates of Heaven and also holds the key to it, thus referring to how he won't get into Heaven. If you look into all the other Bible references i'ts pretty sad

[ollies]

This song is so sad, but so uplifting at the same time.

[FullsendOffroad]

It's never the Goodbye that hurts, but the Memories that flashback. My BFF Moved 2000 miles away and I still can't get over it because of so many memories

[hctu]

The lyrics:






Are on the damn screen

[burningclaw]

The former only child when the little sibling is born:

[lespace]

I can imagine the main protagonist sneaking up on the villain, on a bridge, about to sneak kill him, but then he sees him pull out a banjo, and start singing this, and then just walking off after he hears him finish.

[Jesslynn]

🌻 This song is gold 🌻
Haven't heard it since middle school but it's still just a beautiful peace of music!