Coldplay - Violet Hill

Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow
White snow

Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze
Down below

When the future's architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You'd better lie low

If you love me
Won't you let me know?

Was a long and dark December
When the banks became cathedrals
And the fog
Became God

Priests clutched onto bibles
Hollowed out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft

Bury me in armor
When I'm dead and hit the ground
A love back home unfolds

If you love me
Won't you let me know?

I don't want to be a soldier
Who the captain of some sinking ship
Would stow, far below

So if you love me
Why'd you let me go?

I took my love down to Violet Hill
There we sat in snow
All that time she was silent still

So if you love me
Won't you let me know?

If you love me,
Won't you let me know?

"Violet Hill" is a song by English alternative rock band Coldplay. It was written by all members of the band for its fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends. Built around the repetition of a sound of guitar, which uses a tempo going, with the support of the pianos and rhythms that accompany the song lyrics. The song was originally available as a free download on the website of the band and was downloaded more than two million times.

"Violet Hill" was received with positive comments. The track was released around the world as the only driver Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends, reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and number eight in the UK singles chart. The song, along with its music video, received the award nominations. The single has been widely sampled, with different covers and sounds.

Coldplay singer Chris Martin revealed that the band wrote the first line and the first little melody of the song years ago, but did not end until 2007. Martin told Rolling Stone magazine that the lyrics of the song about "a carnival of idiots on show" and how a "Fox became God" was a commentary on Fox News. "One day I was watching Bill O'Reilly, and I was like, 'I know how to finish that song," Martin explained, "My best friend, Tim, who is a musician in a band called the High Wire, but also has to work in a bar. He was having trouble with his boss, and made me think that many people spend their lives, told what to do by people who simply do not like. So it was that idea, and watching Bill O'Reilly, and all these words just came out. "

During an interview with MTV News, Guy Berryman revealed that the song was one of the greatest songs that the band has been working and they had to move to one side of the list of songs that would appear on the album. Phil Harvey, the band director, urged them to include the track on the album, which led the band to pull back to the list.