"Don't Let It Break Your Heart" is a song by Coldplay from their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto. It is the thirteenth and penultimate track of the album.
Background and composition[]
In an exclusive track by track interview for Music Week, Chris Martin explained what the band tried to do on the making of the song in relation to the concept of Mylo Xyloto, stating: "I think we wanted to do an album this time with a happy ending and I think we've actually done it, which we never thought we'd do. For whatever reason it is, it's happened and that was very late in the day and it's nice that song 'cos you just hit everything as hard as possible – which for a band like Coldplay is a very pleasurable thing."[1]
"Don't Let It Break Your Heart" was described by Billboard as a "huge-sounding and hugely hopeful pop-rock song".[2] The song begins right after the end of "A Hopeful Transmission", while its end also merges with the next and final track of the album, "Up with the Birds".
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
And if I lost the map
If I lost it all
Or fell into the trap
Then she'd call
[Chorus 1]
When you're tired of racing and you
Found you never left the start
Come on, baby, don't let it break your heart
[Verse 2]
Though heavily we bled
Still, on we crawl
Trying to catch a cannonball
And a slow burning tide
Through my veins is flowing
From my shipwreck, I heard her call
And she sang
[Chorus 2]
When you're tired of aiming your arrows
Still, you never hit the mark, oh-oh
And even in your rains and shadows
Still, we're never gonna part, ah-ah-ah
Come on, baby, don't let it break your heart
[Hook]
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Don't let it break your heart
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Don't let it break your heart
[Outro]
Don't let it break your heart
Don't let it break your heart
(Your heart, your heart, your heart)
Official audio[]
Don't Let It Break Your Heart
Critical reception[]
MTV UK praised the track, wroting: "[The] bombastic stomper sees Coldplay at their most life-affirming. Buckland's cascading guitars float over a thumping backbeat, and the track shares the optimism and enthusiasm of "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"."[3] In a ranking of the band's entire discography, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Parachutes, NME also praised the song, comparing it to a dream where you "just find yourself in the middle", adding: "[the song] decides to tackle its listener's heartbreak by thrusting them right in the centre of the biggest feelings. It doesn't wallow, or ever pause, really. It's an explosion of hope, of energy given to the person who is wrestling with that recent disappointment. [...] It might be the most triumphant break-up song ever written.[4]
References[]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110925001542/http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=2&storycode=1046690&c=2
- ↑ https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/465606/coldplays-mylo-xyloto-track-by-track-review
- ↑ http://www.mtv.co.uk/coldplay/news/coldplay-mylo-xyloto-track-by-track-review
- ↑ https://www.nme.com/features/every-coldplay-song-ranked-in-order-of-greatness-2704676