
But what really makes this worth caring for is the second verse, when harmonies from Champion turn the entire song from pleasant crooning into something altogether more melancholy, something more heartbreaking. In a ranking of the band's entire discography, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Parachutes (2000), NME praised the song, writing: "Martin strips everything back here, giving intimacy and calm back to his fans with a mellow love song. Just erodes us and see roses in the rain, saying Like a river to a raindrop, I lost a friendĪnd tonight, I know it all has to begin againįly up to the surface and just start againĪnd lift off before trouble just erodes us in the rain The devil as he's talking with those angel's eyesĪnd I just want to be there when the lightning strikes The tightrope that I'm walking just sways and ties Lift off this blindfold, let me see againīring back the water, let your ships roll in Oh, morning come bursting the clouds, amen

#Been around the world tonight full
Its live version includes a new verse ( So fly on that silverbird / Oh, fly home to me / I've been around the whole wide world / It's only you I see / So fly on that silverbird / Oh, fly home to me / It's us against the whole wide world / It's always you and me), which was added on during the A Head Full of Dreams Tour with some variations in each concert. On 26 October 2018, Coldplay released a live version of the song played on Leipzig, Germany, along with two other live version songs, "Stayin' Alive" (Live at Glastonbury), with guest appearence of Barry Gibb, from Bee Gees, and " Don't Panic" (Live in Paris). The song was described as a "love song" and as an "acoustic ballad overlain with Jonny Buckland's delicate electric guitar work".

It's about meeting someone you love and feeling powerful, when you meet someone and suddenly everything feels alright again." In an exclusive track by track interview for Music Week, Chris Martin said "Us Against the World" is a story about the album's main characters, Mylo and Fly, stating: "The whole thing is supposed to be a kind of story so they all fit together and that is the two characters from the previous two songs (" Paradise" and " Charlie Brown") when they meet each other.
