My birthday was June 24. Friends and family have now all figured out that the easiest thing to get me is an iTunes gift card. So I’ve been looking for music. A friend gave me Coldplay’s new album, Viva la Vida. In fact, as I write this, my typing is being slowed because I keep tapping on my mouse and keyboard to “Strawberry Swing.”
Last night, I listened through the album without skipping around for the second time. At the end of the album, the music from the first song, “Life in Technicolor,” resurfaces. I was almost moved to tears when Chris Martin resounded the ending lyrics:
And…
in the end
we lie awake, and we dream of making our escape
Really. It’s that good. It could have been the fact that it was about 1:00 in the morning, but I don’t think so. If you haven’t heard the new album (or the others), check it out at Last.fm, iTunes, or Amazon.
