I Bloom Blaum

"I Bloom Blaum"
General information
Artist	Coldplay
A-Side	"In My Place"
Released	5 August 2002
Recorded	2001-2002
Genre	Rock
Length	2:11
Label(s)
Songwriter(s)	Guy Berryman Jonny Buckland Will Champion Chris Martin
Producer(s)	Ken Nelson Coldplay Mark Pythian
B-Sides chronology
"One I Love"
"I Bloom Blaum"
"1.36"
"In My Place" chronology
"One I Love"
"I Bloom Blaum"

"I Bloom Blaum" is a song by British rock band Coldplay and the second B-Side of "In My Place", the lead single from A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002).

Background and composition

In an exclusive interview for an e-zine made available on the band's website, when asked about the meaning of the song's title, Chris Martin revealed:

“Well, I thought it meant "The Blue People". I just read it in Icelandic. We had a review in an Icelandic newspaper the day after we played the first time and I thought it said I Bloom Blaum, and I said to my friend, ‘What does that mean?’, and he said, ‘It means The Blue People’, but it didn't actually say I Bloom Blaum at all, that's just what I remembered it being, so I Bloom Blaum doesn't mean anything. Simon Pegg told me to call [the song] that.”

American magazine Rolling Stone described the track as a “delicate, finger-picked folk”.

"I Bloom Blaum" is the second B-Side of "In My Place", along with "One I Love".

Lyrics

[Verse]
Darling, those tired eyes
Go with me all the time
And in the dead of night
Tell me you will be mine
Where do you go to, pretty babe?
Where do you go to when the night wind's away?
Ask me so sweetly, what do I do?
And who do I sing for
Well honey I sing about you
You

Official audio

I Bloom Blaum

Critical reception

In a ranking of the band's entire discography, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Parachutes (2000), NME reviewed the song, writing: “There's a delicacy to ‘I Bloom Blaum’, one that was unusual in 2002, fighting for attention opposite the ‘Politik’s and the ‘God Put a Smile upon Your Face’s of the ‘Rush of Blood to the Head’ cycle. It's slight, but quietly special at the same time too.”