Christmas Lights

Album

Single

Label

Capitol Records

Genre

Christmas

Duration

6:00

Composer(s)

Guy Berryman;Jonny Buckland;Will Champion;Chris Martin

Entered Chart

Dec 18, 2010

Peak Date

Dec 18, 2010

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Capitol Digital

This standalone Christmas song was released by the British alternative rock band Coldplay on December 1, 2010, as a digital download. According to the band's website, the mid-tempo number is "in the key of G." Mat Whitecross directed the video for the song, which was filmed at the South Bank of River Thames in London. The band are seen performing the song on a small theater-inspired stage with red velvet curtains. "The idea for the video was like a magical, surreal theater show with loads of tricks packed in," frontman Chris Martin said. A trio of Elvis Presley impersonators are seen playing violins - they are the band's former manager Phil Harvey, Tim Crompton, the frontman of Coldplay support act The High Wire and comic actor Simon Pegg. The words above the stage curtain in the video say CREDO ELVEM ETIAM VIVERE. This means "I believe Elvis lives" in Latin.

Christmas night, another fight
Tears, we cried a flood
Got all kinds of poison in
Of poison in my blood
I took my feet
To Oxford Street
Tryna right a wrong
Just walk away
Those windows say
But I can't believe she's gone

When you're still waiting for the snow to fall
Doesn't really feel like Christmas at all

Up above candles on air flicker
Oh, they flicker and they float
And I'm up here holding on
To all those chandeliers of hope
Like some drunken Elvis singing
I go singing out of tune
Saying how I always loved you, darling
And I always will

Oh, when you're still waiting for the snow to fall
It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all
Still waiting for the snow to fall
It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all

Those Christmas lights
Light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh, Christmas lights, keep shining on

Those Christmas lights
Light up the street
Maybe they'll bring her back to me
Then all my troubles will be gone
Oh, Christmas lights, keep shining on

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh, Christmas lights
Light up the street
Light up the fireworks in me
May all your troubles soon be gone
Those Christmas lights, keep shining on