This acoustic-guitar driven instrumental was originally a full song with lyrics. However when a stranger described it as an "obvious single" the words were removed.
Chris Martin in Q magazine July 2008 said: "It's nice to not have a singer on the first song come in and ruin it. This is our milkman song, the most whistleable thing. We took all the lyrics off because this song was our only safety net.
This was co-written by Jon Hopkins. Drummer Will Champion told MTV News: "Jon Hopkins was a friend of (producer) Brian Eno's, and he has this uncanny knack of being able to play any song. You can play him a bit of classical music once, and he'll be able to play it back to you perfectly, from memory. He's an incredibly talented guy, and Brian brought him in because I think he wanted to free up Chris from playing keyboards too much, so he could do other stuff."
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