Alex CornellDirector or Design, Meta · interface designer, filmmaker, and periodic musician

"The Scientist" Coldplay cover by Alex Cornell

24 Feb 2011 · 5 min

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Alex Cornell covers Coldplay's "The Scientist" in a casual home recording. The video captures informal banter between speakers before Cornell's sung performance of the track.

This strikes me as a bad idea, but I think it'll be. It might be okay. Little. Oh my god! Dude, I have no idea what is below me. All right, the guitar is going. Boom! Did you fall too? Yep. Dude, okay, this is dangerous, I think.
You recording? Yep, we good. Yep.
Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry. You don't know how lovely you are. And I had to find you, tell you I need you, tell you I set you apart. Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions. Oh, when I rush to the star, running in circles, chasing our tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy. Oh, it's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy. It was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard. Oh, take me back to the start. And I was just guessing numbers and figures, pulling your puzzles apart. Questions of science, science and progress don't speak as loud as my heart. You tell me you love me, you come back and Haunt me, oh, when I rush to the star. Running in circles, chasing our tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy. It was such a shame for us to part. Nobody said It was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard. Take me back to the start.
All right. Forward!