Coldplay
Guns lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2019
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 1:56
Take it from the playgrounds
And take it from the bums
Take it from the hospitals
And squeeze it from the slums
All the kids make pistols with
Their fingers and their thumbs
Advertise a revolution
Arm it when it comes
We're cooking up the zeros
We've been doing all the sums
The judgement of this court is
"We need more guns"
Stop
Everything's gone so crazy
Everything tangled in blue
Everyone's going fucking crazy
Maybe I'm crazy, too
Meltdown all the trumpets
All the trombones, and the drums
Who needs education
Or a thousand splendid suns
Poor is good for business
Cut the forests, they're so dumb
Only save your look-alikes
And fuck the other ones
It's the opinion of this board that
"We need more guns"
Stop
Everything's gone so crazy
Everybody but you
Everything's gone fucking crazy
Maybe I'm crazy, too
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Key vocabulary
- cut
- make a sharp woundA1
- doing
- performing an actionA1
- education
- teaching and learningA2
- everything
- all thingsA1
- fingers
- small hand partsA2
- going
- moving toward a placeA1
- gone
- not here; finishedA1
- judgement
- a decision after thinkingA1
- needs
- requires; must haveA1
- playgrounds
- places for kids to playB2
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About this song
Coldplay is a British rock band that plays art rock and alternative pop. Formed in London in the late 1990s, they are known for arena-sized, atmospheric songs such as “Clocks” and for an evolving catalog from Parachutes through Viva la Vida, Mylo Xyloto, Everyday Life, and Music of the Spheres.