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All across the country, from the north and to the south
They're saying "Brooke's a hottie with a crazy potty mouth" Neil Patrick Harris – Tony Awards 2011 Closing Song
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Brooke Shields (aside from flubbing in the opening number) presented the award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, before which she talked about said flub and in voicing her nervousness/frustration about the whole thing inadvertently released a stream of curse words (which were subsequently muted for broadcast).

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John Larroquette brought an eloquent mood to the room
I'm still imagining him at home in his Fruit-of-the-Looms Neil Patrick Harris – Tony Awards 2011 Closing Song
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John Larroquette is a film and TV actor who received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and gave quite the acceptance speech. He gave special thanks to co-star Daniel Radcliffe, saying:

without whom I know, that I would be home sitting in my underwear watching this on television

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Stockholm Syndrome Muse – Stockholm Syndrome
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“Stockholm Syndrome” is the fifth track and first single of Absolution. It literally is a single, because it doesn’t have any B-Sides.

The full ass-kicking of this song can really only be expressed at a live performance.

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response where a captive begins to identify closely with his or her captors, as well as with their agenda and demands. The name of the syndrome is derived from a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Stockholm Syndrome isn’t real.The doctor who pronounced the first diagnosis was a police negotiator who refused to see or speak with the woman he nearly got killed during a hostage situation.

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In a haze, a stormy haze
I'll be 'round, I'll be loving you always, always
Here I am and I'll take my time
Here I am and I'll wait in line always, always Coldplay – Parachutes
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Martin will be there for his love no matter if times are good or bad, rain or shine, joy and sorrow.

This interlude sounds like one representative of unrequited love. Both the singer and the object of his love are in a very ambivalent point of their relationship (in a haze, a stormy haze). Martin is committed to the other person, indicated by his saying that he’ll be around loving her.

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I think that with the second stanza Chris Martin shows how he’s patient, and he’s now grown from the person he used to be, who may have rushed things.

The “wait in line” lyric may imply that the woman he is interested in is popular, therefore creating a line of people waiting to get their chance to be with her. Martin accepts this and waits patiently for his chance to prove to her that he’s worth it.

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Everything's Not Lost Coldplay – Everything's Not Lost
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The final track on Parachutes, “Everything’s Not Lost” also contains the hidden song “Life is for Living” on the album.

The track features a leitmotif of not giving up and defeating all ‘demons.’

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The ninth track of Parachutes. Like many songs on the album, the track is layered in metaphors and can readily describe either a relationship or the world as a whole. The song remarks on our limited ability to change our behavior and circumstances and how those limitations affect our relationships.

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The eighth track of Parachutes talks about a relationship that is unsustainable. It was the only song on the album recorded in the ‘90s and not produced by Ken Nelson.

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Parachutes Coldplay – Parachutes
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The title track of Parachutes is more of an interlude than a fully fledged song; its total running time is 46 seconds. Such interludes would not appear again on a Coldplay release until 2011’s Mylo Xyloto.

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What about Postcards From Far Away from Prospekt’s March (2009)?

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Trouble Coldplay – Trouble
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“Trouble” (originally titled “Spiderwebs”) is the sixth track and third single of Parachutes. This song actually has two music videos: the first video was done in the UK, but Martin ended up hating it and the label thought it was too dark for American audiences; the second video is much more light-hearted.

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According to Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin, the song’s writing was inspired by his own behaviour. Martin recalls, “There were some bad things going in our band … the song is about behaving badly towards somebody you really love and I was certainly doing that to some members of the band.” He added that he supposed it was about time to stop acting like a knobhead.

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This is probably an indirect form of saying sorry to Will Champion, a member of the group who they kicked of the band for a while

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Yellow Coldplay – Yellow
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“Yellow” is the fifth track and second single from Coldplay’s 2000 debut album Parachutes. It is one of their oldest and most enduring hits, continuing to be a celebrated staple of live performances even today.

The title of the song came from the feel of the band during its composition, which was described as filled with “brightness and hope and devotion.” However, the lyrical content was inspired by lead singer Chris Martin’s “unrequited love”.

(Source: Coldplay: Nobody Said It Was Easy by Martin Roach)

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Chris Martin was trying to make an impression of Neil Young to make the band giggle, and he randomly used the word yellow at some point, wich led to him writing the whole song we know as yellow, in about 10 min, and then people found a meaning to it.
-“you were like, the stars are all yellow -well, yeah but they’re not yellow (…) well, they are inside Christmas cards, but…”
Chris Martin interview on Howard Stern show

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