The groovy fifth track on Coldplay’s dynamic A Head Full of Dreams takes a step into disco, with a simplistic song about life and love, backed by a funky dance floor beat. It features a prominent guitar riff that was inspired by the riff on Guns N' Roses “Sweet Child O' Mine.”
According to bassist...
[Intro]
[Indecipherable]
[Verse 1]
"Turn your magic on," Umi, she'd say
"Everythin' you want's a dream away
We are legends, every day"
That's what she told me
"Turn your magic on," to me, she'd say
"Everythin' you want's a dream away
Under this pressure, under this weight
We are diamonds"
[Pre-Chorus]
Now, I feel my heart beatin'
I feel my heart underneath my skin
Now, I feel my heart beatin'
Oh, you make me feel
[Chorus]
Like I'm alive again
(Alive again)
Oh, you make me feel
Like I'm alive again
[Verse 2]
Said, "I can't go on, not in this way
I'm a dream that died by light of day
Gonna hold up half the sky and say
Only I own me"
[Pre-Chorus]
Now, I feel my heart beatin'
I feel my heart underneath my skin
Oh, I can I feel my heart beatin'
'Cause you make me feel
[Chorus]
Like I'm alive again
(Alive again)
Oh, you make me feel
Like I'm alive again
[Verse 3]
"Turn your magic on," Umi, she'd say
"Everythin' you want's a dream away
Under this pressure, under this weight
We are diamonds takin' shape
We are diamonds takin' shape"
[Bridge]
(Woo, woo-hoo)
(Woo, woo-hoo)
If we've only got this life, this adventure, oh, then I
And if we've only got this life, you'll get me through alive
And if we've only got this life, in this adventure, oh, then I
Want to share it with you, with you, with you
Oh, see, yeah, see, yeah, I
[Outro]
Do-hoo (Woo-hoo)
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Adventure Of A Lifetime was written by Tor Erik Hermansen & Mikkel Storleer Eriksen & Guy Berryman & Will Champion & Jonny Buckland & Chris Martin.
Adventure Of A Lifetime was produced by Rik Simpson & StarGate.
Coldplay released Adventure Of A Lifetime on Fri Nov 06 2015.
The apes are computer graphics representations of Coldplay’s band members. To create the video, they went through an extensive motion capture process in The Volume, the same space used for James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar.
According to bassist Guy Berryman,
[The track] started as a freeform musical session and was called something else, Legends or something. It had a different chord sequence and different hooks and one-by-one things were taken away and things got added.
According to Songfacts, Jonny Buckland told Q magazine described the collaboration with production team Stargate:
They’d always come back with something interesting, something we’d never come up with. Like the cut-up vocal on “Adventure Of A Lifetime.“ We’d worked on that song for a long time and...
According to Songfacts, SiriusXM’s Jeff Regan, Chris Martin explained the inspiration for the song:
I’d been begging Jonny our guitarist for years to make a riff that I like as much as “Sweet Child O' Mine“ by Guns N' Roses, then he showed me that one, and I was like, ‘That’s it’. So those elements...