"And we share the same blood."
'Cause everyone hurts, everyone cries
Everyone tells each other all kinds of lies
Everyone falls, everybody dreams and doubts
Got to keep dancing when the lights go out
Everyday Life is the eighth studio album by English Alternative Rock band Coldplay, released in 2019.
It is a double album, divided into two sides titled Sunrise and Sunset. Sonically, it is likely the band's most experimental album to date, with its influences ranging from classical music and jazz to African and Middle Eastern music. The album's lyrical themes tackle unity and peace as well more politically charged topics that the band hadn't tackled previously, such as racism and police brutality. Additional musicians from other ethnicities also contributed for the music.
"Orphans" and "Arabesque" were released on the same day as lead singles for the album. Although the band didn't tour for the album due to environmental concerns, the band played the album in its entirety live in Jordan during its release, with the entire performance live-streamed on the band's YouTube channel.
The album is also notable for being the first Coldplay release to include profanity and be marked with a "Parental Advisory" sticker.
Tracklist
Sunrise- "Sunrise" (2:31)
- "Church" (3:50)
- "Trouble in Town" (4:38)
- "BrokEn" (2:30)
- "Daddy" (4:58)
- "WOTW / POTP" (1:16)
- "Arabesque" (5:40)
- "When I Need a Friend" (2:35)
Sunset
- "Guns" (1:55)
- "Orphans" (3:17)
- "Èkó" (2:37)
- "Cry Cry Cry" (2:47)
- "Old Friends" (2:26)
- "بنی آدم" (3:14)
- "Champion of the World" (4:17)
- "Everyday Life" (4:18)
And there are no ends to old tropes
- Alliterative Title: "Cry Cry Cry"
- Animated Music Video: Aardman Animations created a mixed-media video for "Daddy" with real-time puppetry and hand-drawn animation.
- B-Side: "Flags", a song exclusively released in the Japanese edition of the album, and later worldwide on streaming services.
- Bookends: The first proper song the album, "Church", and the final track, "Everyday Life", share the same note and chord progression.
- Darker and Edgier: Compared to the light, hopeful A Head Full of Dreams, this album has many dark songs that soberly explain global problems like militarism and police brutality.
- Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover is black-and-white.
- Disappeared Dad: "Daddy" is from the perspective of a kid whose father has run away. To make matters worse, it's his birthday.
- Distinct Double Album: Everyday Life has a Sunrise and a Sunset half, though it fits on a single CD.
- Epic Instrumental Opener: "Sunrise".
- Face on the Cover: Everyday Life is the first album to include the whole band on the cover, with the band themselves emulating an early jazz band under the moniker of "The Wedding Band Dance Orchestra".
- Fading into the Next Song:
- "Sunrise" — "Church";
- "Trouble in Town" — "Daddy";
- "Daddy" — "WOTW / POTP" — "Arabesque";
- "بنی آدم" — "Champion of the World".
- Heartbeat Soundtrack: "Daddy" opens with this, continuing from the ending of "Trouble in Town."
- Hidden Track: The physical release of Everyday Life features a chain of eight hidden tracks in between the Sunrise and Sunset halves which play a field recording of Westminster Chimes and other ambient noise. Each one is represented by a single character ultimately spelling "GOD=LOVE"; if one wishes to get technical, this now means the band has three hidden tracks titled "O" following that of Ghost Stories.
- Kids Rock: Children sing in the backing of “Orphans”, and Chris’s son Moses provides the “boom boom ka” beat.
- Lonely Piano Piece: "Daddy" is a quiet piano piece about a child missing their father.
- Lyrical Dissonance: "Orphans" is a peppy, hoot-along anthem about...the Syrian Civil War?
- Mature Animal Story: The music video for "Trouble in Town" features a dystopian city ruled by a pig dictator who oppress the other impoverished animals there. Foxes are seen being racially profiled, as a metaphor for real-life police brutality.
- Miniscule Rocking: "WOTW / POTP" and "Guns" are both under two minutes long.
- Multilingual Song: Verse two of "Arabesque" from Everyday Life is sung almost entirely in French, with the vocals provided by Stromae, before switching back to English for the hook.
- Non-Appearing Title: "Arabesque", "Orphans", "Èkó" and "بنی آدم", even translating the lyrics for the last one.
- One-Word Title: "Sunrise", "Church", "BrokEn", "Daddy", "Arabesque", "Guns", "Orphans" and "Èkó".
- Precision F-Strike: Given how clean Coldplay's lyrics usually are, Everyday Life implemented the F-word enough to get a Parental Advisory label.
- The first example is in a field recording of unlawful police detainment played in the crescendo to "Trouble in Town".
- Next is "Arabesque"; having sung the line "We share in the same blood" in the chorus, Chris chooses to punctuate the end of the song with "Same fucking blood!"
- And to top it off, Chris drops three more in "Guns", once in each chorus and another in the second verse.
- Protest Song:
- "Trouble In Town" is about how frequent Police Brutality and racism is rampant in Western countries. The sample by the end of the song taken from a Philadelphia incident involving racial profiling in 2013 drives this point home.
- "Arabesque" tackles the divide between different groups of people, despite we all sharing the same blood.
- "Guns", which is a Take That! to the United States' obsession with firearms.
- Shout-Out:
- "Champion of the World" contains an interpolation of "Los Angeles, Be Kind" by Owl John, a side project from Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison. The song was dedicated to him, as he committed suicide a year prior to the album's release.
- The album cover is a homage to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, which is considered the first jazz band in history.
- Teenage Death Song: "Orphans". Rosaline and her father are either killed or made refugees by the Syrian Civil War.
- Title Track: The atmospheric piano ballad that closes the album.
- Oh I want to know when I can go
Back and get drunk with my friends
I want to know when I can go
Back and feel home again
