Coldplay have two videos for their recent single, Violet Hill. The anti-war song was given an artistic treatment by Asa Mader, and a more pointed rendition by Mat Whitecross.
The first video, directed by Asa Mader, was filmed in Enna, a mountaintop city in the centre of Sicily, near Nicoletti lake. Members of the band are shown climbing the mountain as well as performing outside a villa in the city. Chris Martin has a few shots with his mouth shown through a magnifying glass.
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The second video, directed by Mat Whitecross, splices together a number of clips featuring well known politicans. Shots of missile launches and test patterns are interspersed with scenes of George W Bush, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, Boris Yeltsin, Fidel Castro and others, including Coldplay themselves. See the full version of George Bush conducting at the 2008 White House Correspondents Dinner.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqQL5WFN20
Lyrics for 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
And went out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft
Bury me in honor
When i’m dead and hit the ground
A love back home unfolds
If you love me
Won’t you let me know?
(Guitar Solo)
I don’t want to be a soldier
With the captain of some sinking ship
With snow, 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?
Just a great song and a powerful video. Great reviews.