Moving To Mars
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Moving To Mars is a track expected to be included on the Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall EP, due for release on 26th June 2011. It is not included in the Mylo Xyloto tracklisting.
It is described as considerably more downbeat than the previous two tracks from the EP, with much of the first minute or two derived from Chris Martin sitting alone at the piano before the other instrumentation kicks in. Stereogum described it as "a cosmic ballad with Chris Martin taking notes and poses from the 'Life On Mars' / 'Space Oddity' / Dark Side Of The Moon songbook."
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Release
Moving To Mars is available through the iTunes stores at 00:01h on Sunday 26 June 2011 (UK time). The song was aired live on Friday 24th June, 11.45am (UK time) on the following radio stations: BBC Radio 1; BBC Radio 2; BBC 6 Music; Absolute Radio; Xfm. It was then immediately made available to listen again on Coldplay.com and also at the official YouTube channel, ColdplayTV[1]
Coldplayers' acclaim
Within the first six hours of release, Moving To Mars had received over 50% perfect 10/10 votes in the sliding scale poll on the front page of Coldplaying.com, with many more Coldplayers following up their vote with favourable comments at the messageboard[2].
First announcement
Moving To Mars was first announced shortly after it was discovered on the pre-order details via the iTunes tracklisting for the Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall EP, by Coldplayer 'pipp088'.[3]
The official announcement came on 22nd June 2011 via Coldplay.com[4]. It read: Dear friends, more new music on its way... Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall EP is arriving in iTunes stores at 00:01 on Sunday 26 June. These are the songs: 1. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall; 2. Major Minus; 3. Moving To Mars. You can pre-order the EP on iTunes worldwide now, except the US and Japan (where it's coming soon). Love Will.
First reference
Roadie #42 earlier this year blogged about Moving To Mars, under the acronym 'MTM'[5]. Here's what he said back in early February: "Every room had some kind of writing or recording setup on the go - you even had to time your use of the kettle carefully, as a laptop and speakers had been set up in the kitchen and Jonny was in there working on his epic lead for MTM. So, by comparison, the first few weeks of the year felt like a ghost town."
First Live Performance
Moving to Mars made its debut during the iTunes Festival on Friday 22nd July 2011.
Lyrics
Somewhere up above the stars The wreckage of a universe floats past Somewhere up above my heart A tiny little seed is sown A government is overthrown Who knows when we'll be coming home at last And I heard it on the radio that one day we'll be living in the stars And I heard it on a TV show that somewhere up above and in my heart They'll be tearing us apart Maybe moving us to Mars We won't see the earth again in these seconds just remain unchanged 8 to 9, 9 to 10 We are meeting for the first time We might never meet again, you and me We are meeting for the first time, can't you see 76543 We are meeting for the first time Singing this space symphony They'll be tearing us apart Maybe moving us to Mars Past the satellites and stars They're moving us to Mars
