Coldplay
What If lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2005
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:59
What if there was no light
Nothing wrong, nothing right
What if there was no time
And no reason, or rhyme
What if you should decide
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life
What if I got it wrong
And no poem, or song
Could put right what I got wrong
Or make you feel I belong
And what if you should decide
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life
That's right
Let's take a breath, jump over the side
That's right
How can you know it if you don't even try?
That's right
Every step that you take
Could be your biggest mistake
It could bend or it could break
That's the risk that you take
What if you should decide
That you don't want me there in your life
That you don't want me there by your side
That's right
Let's take a breath, jump over the side
That's right
How can you know it when you don't even try?
That's right
That's right
Let's take a breath, jump over the side
That's right
You know that darkness always turns into light
That's right
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Key vocabulary
- mistake
- wrong actionA1
- right
- correctA1
- take
- hold or carryA1
- try
- attemptA1
- want
- desireA1
- what
- which thingA1
- step
- move one paceA2
- make
- create or produceA1
- nothing
- no thingA1
- put
- place somethingA1
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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.