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Published: 2005-07-13 02:51:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1801; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 168
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Description How long before I get in?
Before it starts, before I begin?
How long before you decide?
Before I know what it feels like?
Where To, where do I go?
If you never try, then you'll never know.
How long do I have to climb,
Up on the side of this mountain of mine?

Look up, I look up at night,
Planets are moving at the speed of light.
Climb up, up in the trees,
every chance that you get,
is a chance you seize.
How long am I gonna stand,
with my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop,
before I see things the right way up.

All that noise, and all that sound,
All those places I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand...

Ideas that you'll never find,
All the inventors could never design.
The buildings that you put up,
Japan and China all lit up.
The sign that I couldn't read,
or a light that I couldn't see,
some things you have to believe,
but others are puzzles, puzzling me.

All that noise, and all that sound,
All those places I got found.
And birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
ah when you see it then you'll understand...

All those signs, I knew what they meant.
Some things you can invent.
Some get made, and some get sent,
Birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
ah, when you see it then you'll understand...

~ "Speed of Sound", Coldplay

Prismacolor pencils, lime-green and black Sharpies, black col-erase pencil.

Background consists of visual elements taken from the "Speed of Sound" video plus a photo of a live concert from the Coldplay website. Layered and altered in Photoshop.
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Comments: 18

Koshinator [2008-07-24 03:38:49 +0000 UTC]

The Music Vid:[link]

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Invader-Johnny [2008-01-10 00:52:17 +0000 UTC]

That's a kick ass background.

Invader Johnny Signing Off.

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Firestar9mm [2007-03-15 00:19:48 +0000 UTC]

Found the link to this in your VOX and was actually surprised. I thought I'd dredged this far back in your gallery, but apparently this escaped my eye. Am sort of glad, though--it's a nice surprise to find something I missed the first time around

While the vivid colors here are wonderful, that's not what caught my eye here--that was the lyrics scrolling just on the peripheral of the picture; that couple with Danny's expression make me think that I am circled in a whirl of color just as he is. It's somehow private, and maybe he doesn't even know that I am here seeing him. He mayn't have noticed me yet; he mayn't at all.

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BlackEyes666 [2007-01-29 02:11:35 +0000 UTC]

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I LOVE COLDPLAY + SPEED OF SOUND!!!!!!!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*goes on like this for a while*EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEE*is shot*

*everyone looks at Alex*

Alex: Not me!! *points toward Aly*

Aly: *holding a smoking potato gun* Ummm... I can explain.

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snakelova0227 [2006-11-24 01:37:55 +0000 UTC]

i love that song!

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JaymanJohn [2006-07-02 21:54:28 +0000 UTC]

wow talk about music effect in art

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kat3h [2005-11-05 15:00:24 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome. 'n.

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CliffeArts [2005-08-10 23:22:26 +0000 UTC]

Wow awesome background, great ^^

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Illimearu [2005-07-14 16:49:40 +0000 UTC]

I love that song and the pic. Well done!

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paradoxal [2005-07-14 03:46:38 +0000 UTC]

Ooooh, that's just gorgeous! The rushing speed, the flying color, and Danny just hovering there in perfect counterbalance!

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PhantomDog [2005-07-13 15:16:16 +0000 UTC]

i love it! thats one of my fav songs

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Weatherartist [2005-07-13 14:32:22 +0000 UTC]

Nice job! I really like how you made Danny look so confused or lost. The background is also very detailed and unique. The abstract shape of birds really help to tie in with the words in the picture, and their light blue color has good contrast with everything else in the work.

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InvaderZel [2005-07-13 12:22:37 +0000 UTC]

Cool pic!

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Obi-quiet [2005-07-13 07:30:40 +0000 UTC]

Wow...that paints a very vivid image.

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Skooterwolf [2005-07-13 06:47:19 +0000 UTC]

this is so cool!

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rune-faire [2005-07-13 04:07:47 +0000 UTC]

that looks so awesome! Very well done!

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scarlett-phoenix [2005-07-13 03:34:08 +0000 UTC]

wow! fav

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darkromance76 [2005-07-13 03:03:17 +0000 UTC]

it looks good i like that song! ^^

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