X&Y

There are three things that help me get through the stacks and piles and mounds o' laundry that a family of baseball-and-soccer-playing, tree-climbing, bike-riding, dirt-digging, kitchen-experimenting kids, a sweaty husband and four dogs can create (if you don't know how a dog can create dirty laundry, try riding in the front seat of a Jeep with a muddy, slobbery black lab on a hot day). Those three things are talking on the phone, lauging with my kids or listening to music. A second floor laundry next to the master bedroom was the smartest thing I did in this house next to having a roof. So I haul the clean clothes out of the dryer in the next room and spread them out on my sorting table, AKA the bed in the master bedroom. My mother-in-law's not home, and she was my phone call of choice today. My kids are busy with Playmobil castles and pirate ships, and my oldest daughter, Bard, who provides the most laughs, is at a friend's house.

So, thanks to Rhapsody, I'm doing laundry and listening to Coldplay's latest CD, X&Y, which was released yesterday. coldplay very quickly became one of my favorite bands after I heard The Scientist, and now Bo is attempting to teach me to play Green Eyes on the guitar. I love the simple worship feel of Coldplay's lyrics and music. I listen to their albums over and over, and I'm just as enamoured with this release as I was with Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head.

As I fold underwear and sort socks, I'm transported. Thanks to the magic of the telepathy that is recorded music, here is the simple song that is making its way out of Chris Martin's head, through my speakers, into my brain, detouring through my heart and finding its way to my own voice:

My song is love
Love to the loveless, shown
And it goes up
You don't have to be alone

Your heavy heart
Is made of stone
And its so hard to see you clearly
You don't have to be on your own
You don't have to be on your own

And i'm not gonna take it back
Well i'm not gonna say I don't mean that
Your the target that i'm aiming at
And I get that message home

My song is love
My song is love, unknown
And i'm on fire for you, clearly
You don't have to be alone
You don't have to be on your own

And i'm not gonna take it back
And i'm not gonna say I don't mean that
Your the target that i'm aiming at
But i'm nothing on my own
Got to get that message home

And i'm not gonna stand and wait
Not gonna leave it until its much too late
On a platform i'm gonna stand and say
That i'm nothing on my own
And I love you, please come home

My song is love, is love unknown
And i've got to get that message home

from X&Y, the newest release by Coldplay