Strawberry Swing

Strawberry Swing is a track included on Coldplay's fourth album. This is one of several potential album cuts with Afro-pop and high-life influences: Here, distortion-free finger-picked guitars which sound straight out of Mali mix with a heavy bassline and psychedelic synths. "My Mum comes from Zimbabwe, so I spent a lot of time there," says Martin. "I used to work in a studio where people played that." More gentle than much of the album, it is built around a repetitive African-inspired guitar as a blissed-out Martin sings the touching and slightly psychedelic love song about "such a perfect day". Key lyric: "The sky could be blue, I don't mind, without you it's a waste of time." It is thought that Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground was an earlier/alternate title for Strawberry Swing, due to its presence in the song's lyrics below.

[Intro] They were sitting They were sitting on the strawberry swing Every moment was so precious They were sitting They were talking on the strawberry swing Everybody was for fighting Wouldn't wanna waste a thing Cold, cold water Bring me 'round Now my feet won't touch the ground Cold, cold water What ya say? [Chorus] When it's such It's such a perfect day It's such a perfect day [Verse] I remember We were walking up to strawberry swing I can't wait 'til the morning Wouldn't wanna change a thing People moving all the time Inside a perfectly straight line Don't you wanna just curve away [Chorus] When it's such It's such a perfect day It's such a perfect day [Instrumental Bridge] Ah [Outro] Now the sky could be blue I don't mind Without you it's a waste of time Could be blue I don't mind Without you it's a waste of time Well the sky could be blue Could be grey Without you I'm just miles away Well, the sky could be blue I don't mind Without you it's a waste of time