Chords for Chris Martin writing The Scientist and AROBTTH (Part II)

_ This record, we started in London, we'd just come off two years of touring
and we really wanted to record lots of new songs and we recorded them all in London
and then [F] we went away and I reckon that we realised we'd actually been coasting a bit on [Bb] that recording session
and just finding our feet again and [F] just thinking that this could be an awful lot better.
And then we, [C] by some amazing stroke of blessing [Am] or whatever,
we ended up back in this little room that we did some of [Bb] the first record on. _ _
[F] _ There's a room in Parr Street where [C] it's just great to play music in and just [F] sit and play for hours and hours
and we always manage to write things there, [Bb] whereas other studios _ [F] haven't been as creative in.
And it was just like, well, you know, here we are, what are we going to do?
[C] And that was when songs like [F] The Scientist, it just landed and Daylight just landed
and so it [Bb] was just a good time to go back because we [F] needed some new songs.
And it was a really exciting time [C] because we thought we can do anything, we can do anything.
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[F] _ Chris just went in one [C] weekend, he was just in the studio on his own
and then we all came [F] back on the Monday and he goes, I've got this [F] song
and just recorded it straight down as it was and we kept that [Bb] original take
and it was just, you know, it was just all there straight away and it was just such an immediate, exciting moment.
The best moment of the entire [Dm] record for me was when, after Johnny had heard it,
this was about three weeks [Bb] later when we'd come back to this song
and I just heard through a wall this riff [F] and it was what he does at the end
and that's my favourite bit of music on the record.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] We've got good memories of Liverpool, obviously, from the last record.
I don't know, it was kind of different during these recording sessions
[Dm] because there was more of a gusto in this to just [Bb] forget your sort of personal, [F] mental or physical health
and just, you know, you just get up every day and get on with it
and it wouldn't stop until every little [Dm] facet of what we were trying to do was right.
We've definitely [Bb] pushed ourselves in terms of _ technique and technology.
[F] In terms of the way the songs are written and I suppose in arrangement as [Dm] well,
it's more intense. _ _
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_ _ _ Phil, our sort of, you know, figurehead or fifth member, [Eb] you know,
he said, listen, you should [Bbm] record that song, Clocks,
because I was saying, oh no, we're going to, you know, save [Ab] this one
and so quite rightly he [Eb] said, you know, put that song on because it's [Bbm] good
and that was the newest to go on, [Fm] Clocks. _ _
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_ It's just like fishing, basically, [Eb] the way we [Bbm] approach songs
is you just, if you wait long enough, you know, _ _
[Eb] _ you could go on for [Bbm] hours.
I won't go on for hours.
It helps if you have a piano.
[F] But something might come [Eb] and then I'll be off.
[Bbm] It's like a production line.
You kind of, Chris will [Fm] start off with the basics of a song, like chords and [Ebm] a melody
and maybe some handful of lyrics and [Bbm] then he'll take it to one of us [Fm] or, you know, all of us
and it'll just kind of develop.
[Eb] You know, in the studio especially, you can start to layer [Bbm] things up quite quickly
and try [Fm] different sounds and it usually just kind of evolves.
Maybe it'll be [Bbm] a bass line and it'll take it one way
or a drum beat that'll take [C] it another way and kind [Fm] of it all just adds [Eb] up. _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ This is the amazing thing about our band, [Ab] you know, you play something and you think,
that's all [Eb] right, I like that, and then, [Bbm] Johnny, want to come in?
And then he put on these [Ab] brilliant chords and then the chorus [Cm] came up
and then it all sparked off and then Guy came [Bbm] in and put on his bass line
and then that sparked off another bit.
It's like a big [Fm] chemical reaction, our songwriting [Ebm] process, and it's really exciting. _
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_ What's good about [D] the way we write songs, I never quite know what I'm doing
because I can't read music, so take a song like The Clocks, OK, so_
I just mean I was sitting down, messing around like [Fm] this. _ _ _
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[Bb] It just comes out like that.
_ [Fm] I start singing.
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[F] Then Will will say, that's terrible, and Johnny will say, no, keep going.
That was one which Will didn't like at first, until we did [Eb] that. _
[Bbm] _ And then he said, OK, [F] now it's great. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [B] _preserve
control, _ _ give me a heart and give me soul_ _
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_ Let's go.
OK, let me remember.
So this is a bit of the chorus, right?
OK.
_because
I'm on the stairs, _ _ I'm super happy, _ _ _
I'm so happy, I'm so happy, _ _
I'm in the air.
_ [Gbm] Perfect. _
_ Let's see what you sang.
You can see, that's you.
OK, let's see how it sounds.
[Bb] _as
we are.
_ _ Nobody said it was easy.
_ Now I am so depressed.
_ _ I'm going to be tight.
One bit sounds good.
[Em] Nobody said [B] it was easy.
That's me [Gb] drunk there.
But that's