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Genius Annotation

“Glass Of Water” is a song featured on Coldplay’s Prospekt’s March EP from 2008.

It was originally a song written during sessions for Coldplay’s fourth album, but didn’t make it onto the album’s final tracklisting. However, the song features heavily in the booklet of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends despite being cut from the album.

The title appears on the big painting in the booklet’s centrefold, above some of the song’s lyrics, and the very first page of the album is a map of Brazil with more lyrics from Glass Of Water scribbled over it in crayon. However, the song’s lyrics have drastically changed since the painting was made.


In the chorus, the song shifts into an unusual 7/4 time signature, making it one of the band’s most complex songs. In general many of them were written during the VLVODAOHF era.

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