Square One

MP3 collection firmly restored has allowed me to reconnect with Coldplay's latest album X&Y. These guys write extremely melodic, catchy tunes that I find myself never tiring from hearing. Aside from that, the lyrics on this disc are quite comforting to me these days. In particular the tune Square One that is the opening track is one that I turn to as a way of summing up a lot of my feelings throughout a day like today.

You're in control, is there anywhere you wanna go?
You're in control, is there anything you wanna know?
The future's for discovering
The space in which we're travelling
From the top of the first page
To the end of the last day
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are

Under the surface trying to break through
Deciphering the codes in you
I need a compass, draw me a map
I'm on the top, I can't get back

Whoa whoa

The first line on the first page
To the end of the last page
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are

You just want
Somebody listening to what you say
Oh, you just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are

Is there anybody out there who
Is lost and hurt and lonely too
Are they bleeding all your colours into one?
and if you come undone
As if you've been run through
Some catapult it fired you
You wonder if your chance will ever come
Or if you're stuck in square one

I don't want to go on and on about this, but I'll just say that songs that can verbalize, er vocalize the thoughts that bounce around my head make me feel less like a freak from outer space and more like everyone else.