Christmas Lights Light Up the Road

If you haven't heard it yet you need to.  Christmas Lights the new single from Coldplay will grab your heart and mind with it's melodic rif.  Personally I figured out the main triad the first moment I toughed the keyboard.  My guess with out having read the sheet music is that this one is written in G or at least relative to G.  It is simple, infectious and has a traditional chorus.  The narrative is the kind of story that reaches into the lives of the fans and completely embeds itself in your mind.  

I can't imagine a December in England without snow, however maybe global warming has taken its toll.  Although all I need is a comment to confirm that the Christmas in England if indeed if there is an Oxford Street.  I have always wanted to travel to London, but alas I am poor. Oh, sorry for the tangent.

Maybe what we need is a closer look at the lyrics...  

Christmas night, another fight
Tears we cried a flood
Got all kinds of poison in
Poison in my blood

I took my feet
To Oxford Street
Trying to 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
But 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
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 Christmas lights
Light up the street
Light up the fireworks in me
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh Christmas lights keep shining on

It seems as if it would be the setting would be England, however I don't know much about the geography being imprisoned in Southern California.  I don't even say that I am from the United States anymore.  I just say I am Californian and no one ever asks me where that is.  Okay back to the song.  The tamber of the piano is warm, crisp and personal leading into the sing-along chorus.  It is a clever devise using the commanding plea to the Christmas lights to light up the street and make all of his troubles gone.  I all most imagine it as a standard at a late Christmas party at a pub with everyone singing in tow waving their glasses to and fro.  It wets my appetite for the new album and makes me wonder in what direction are they going next.