Cover art for Yes by Coldplay
Jun. 12, 20081 viewer34.1K views

Yes Lyrics

[Chorus 2]
If you'd only, if you'd only say yes
Whether you will's anybody's guess
God only, God knows she won't let me rest
But I'm just so tired of this loneliness
I've become so tired of this loneliness

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Genius Annotation

“Yes” is the sixth track from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the fourth studio album by British rock band Coldplay. It was written by all four band members and features the hidden track “Chinese Sleep Chant” at the end.

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What did Coldplay say about "Yes"?
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Martin: Everyone was complaining to us about people not buying albums, so we thought maybe the reason people don’t want to buy music is because there’s not enough value for money. So we tried to add a bit of value [with the hidden track, “Chinese Sleep Chant”]. It’s as simple as that. It comes from the supermarket.

Champion: One of the main things we tried to focus on with this record is changing vocal identities, because Chris has a very recognizable voice. Just the idea that you can totally change the sound of a song and the sound of a band, just by treating the vocals a different way. So in a song like “Yes,” Chris is singing in a lot lower register, and then in “Chinese Sleep Chant,” it’s drowned in reverb, and he’s trapped behind all these guitars.

From a 2008 interview with MTV.

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