Album: Mylo Xyloto (2011)

Charted: 22

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• Stole a key
  Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet
  Took a car downtown and took what they offered me
  To set me free
  
  I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene
  I saw the lights go down and standing in front of me
  
  In my scarecrow dreams
  When they smashed my heart into smithereens
  Be a bright red rose come bursting the concrete
  Be a cartoon heart
  
  Light a fire, a fire, a spark
  Light a fire, a flame in my heart
  
  We'll run riot
  We'll be glowing in the dark
  We'll be glowing in the dark
  
  All the boys, all the girls
  All that matters in the world
  All the boys, all the girls
  All that matters that occurs
  All the highs, all the lows
  As the room a-spinning goes
  
  We'll run riot
  We'll be glowing in the dark
  
  Ooh ooh ooh
  So we'll soar
  Luminous and wired
  We'll be glowing in the dark Writer/s: Brian Peter George Eno, Christopher Anthony John Martin, Guy Berryman, Guy Rupert Berryman, Jonathan Mark Buckland, William Champion
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• B0rk from ScotlandAn early version of the song had a line in it which mentioned Charlie Brown from Peanuts, however it was taken out and the band couldn't think of anything better to call the song (they did try 'Cartoon Heart', but ultimately came back to Charlie Brown).
  
  The song itself was written in Chris's daughters doll house (Wendy house) and the doll house itself was renovated and turned into a studio when she told Chris she no longer liked it.
• Bevan Borges from Sydney, AustraliaThe song is initially about a person who seems to be down on his luck no matter how hard he tries (like the Peanuts Charlie Brown) and I believe the lyrics originally contained an explicit reference to Peanuts' Charlie Brown.
• Exaltvanline from Aix En Provence - Fr<3 In my scarecrow dreams
  When they smashed my heart into smithereens
  Be a bright red rose come bursting the concrete... <3
• Exaltvanline from Aix En Provence - FrOk so let's give the artists a break while asking them what message they'd eventually be trying to deliver when they wrote song X or Y... To me, some songs are just like paintings : We all witness them in a very different way because of where we each stand in time and place in our lives when they hit us. I also believe each time Coldplay performs a song such as "Charlie Brown" (or any other as a matter of fact) context will always bring a particular, unic, dimension to the original creation. In my case, I will always remember these words during the Glasgow concert as my bracelet (and the magical fluorescent sparkling live crowd around me) started to illuminate : "We'll be glowing in the dark"... Anyways long live Coldplay!!!
• Alejandro from Miramar, FlSo this song has nothing to do with Charlie Brown from Peanuts, then?

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