cemeteries of london lyrics

• Dying brides: anti-Catholicism and the gothic demonization of fertility.

...In London, along the Thames, a similar problem occurred. (1)...'s Jest Book consisted of adding nine new lyrics for the first act. As he wrote to Kelsall, "songwr... to those floating bodies in Parisian cemeteries, it is safe to say that the Parisian population wa...

• Studies in the Humanities
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 2, December 2005

• The Insurmountable Fire

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin merrily recounts his sonic landscaper's gibes in the new Rolling Stone's cover story, sounding awfully cowed and sheepish for the guy whose band is charged with single-handedly saving the blockbuster-starved music industry: cowed by his competition ("I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer"), cowed by his dizzying celebrity ("If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?"), cowed by the moderate backlash that greeted the band's last record, 2005's X&Y ("We were bigger than we were good"). Eno's sweetly pastoral synth landscape sets the tone, and soon it all piles on: the jangly electric-guitar riff, the cheerful acoustic to sketch out the simple chords, the rumbling bass and ...

... you use the same sounds too much, and your lyrics are not good enough. So, apparently, went Brian En..."Cemeteries of London" gives way to "Lovers in Japan." From th...

• Village Voice, The
• August 27, 2009

• Coldplay's Evolution Works

Music Review EMILY GERTENBACH, 19

...The lyrics are exactly the same, yet the songs are completely...Three of the songs, Cemeteries in London, Death and All His Friends and 42, deal ...

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• July 11, 2008

• Might as well warm to Coldplay.

... on the nocturnal mood piece "Cemeteries of London." Stirring up ghosts and searching in va... a Thom Yorke-like chilliness to clunky lyrics about the dead not being dead but rather having ta...

• Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
• Nbr. 2008, April 2008

• Mummies and Tombs: Turenne, Napoleon, and Death Ritual.

... stringently enforced in plans for new cemeteries after 1793, was jettisoned in the Revolutionary ri.... The lyrics of this song evoke the poetry attributed to Ossian...(London: James Bettenham, 1740). . Wright, Beth S., Painti...

• The Art Bulletin
• Vol. 82 Nbr. 3, September 2000