The emotionally scarring, yet suprisingly catchy third track off Coldplay’s sixth studio album, Ghost Stories, truly gives us an insight into the narrator’s obsession with the love he had lost. His love for the woman no longer in his life is written in ink; it cannot be removed easily, and it brings...
[Verse 1]
Got a tattoo that said "together thru life"
Carved in your name with my pocket knife
And you wonder when you wake up, will it be alright? Ooooh ooh
Feels like there's something broken inside
[Chorus 1]
All I know
All I know
Is that I'm lost
Whenever you go
All I know
Is that I love you so
So much that it hurts
[Verse 2]
Got a tattoo and the pain's alright, oooh oooh
Just wanted a way of keeping you inside (Ooooh ooh)
[Chorus 2]
All I know
All I know
Is that I'm lost
In your fire below
All I know
Is that I love you so
So much that it hurts
[Bridge/Outro]
I see the road begin to climb
I see your stars begin to shine
I see your colors
And I'm dying of thirst
All I know is that I love you so
So much that it hurts (Oh yeah yeah yeah)
So much that it hurts
So much that it hurts
Ink was written by Guy Berryman & Jonny Buckland & Will Champion & Chris Martin.
Ink was produced by Coldplay & Rik Simpson & Daniel Green & Paul Epworth.
According to Songfacts, in a BBC Radio 1 interview, Chris Martin told Zane Lowe:
Up to a certain point in my life I wasn’t completely vulnerable and it caused some problems. If you don’t let love in then you can’t really give it back. So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you’ve got to open yo...