Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall

"Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" is the first track announced from Coldplay's fifth album, "Mylo Xyloto". The The Every Teardrop is a Waterfall Songfacts reports that Chris Martin was inspired to write the upbeat song after hearing the dance track Ritmo de la Noche by Lorca during a nightclub scene in the Javier Bardem film Biutiful. The track is based on I Go To Rio written by Peter Allen and Adrienne Anderson, hence their credits as writers on this tune. Coldplay returned to the charts with epic single 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall', which debuted at No.6 on it's release in June 2011. The track contains elements of Peter Allen's camp classic 'I Go To Rio', a No.1 single in his native Australia back in 1977.

[Verse 1] I turn the music up, I got my records on I shut the world outside until the lights come on Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song And all the kids they dance, all the kids all night Until Monday morning feels another life I turn the music up, I'm on a roll this time And heaven is in sight [Verse 2] I turn the music up, I got my records on From underneath the rubble, sing a rebel song Don't want to see another generation drop I'd rather be a comma than a full stop Maybe I'm in the black, maybe I'm on my knees Maybe I'm in the gap between the two trapezes But my heart is beating and my pulses start Cathedrals in my heart [Pre-Chorus] As we saw, oh, this light I swear you, emerge blinking into To tell me it's alright As we soar walls Every siren is a symphony [Chorus] And every tear's a waterfall Is a waterfall, oh Is a waterfall, oh-oh-oh Is a, is a waterfall Every tear Is a waterfall, oh-oh-oh [Bridge] So you can hurt, hurt me bad But still, I'll raise the flag [Outro] Oh, it was a wa-wa-wa-wa-waterfall A wa-wa-wa-wa-waterfall Every tear, every tear Every teardrop is a waterfall Every tear, every tear Every teardrop is a waterfall Every tear, every tear Every teardrop is a waterfall Every tear, every tear Every teardrop is a waterfall Every tear, every tear Every teardrop is a waterfall