In terms of creative direction, the track belongs exactly to the phase when Coldplay decided to break the form they had built up until then. For this album they brought in Brian Eno as producer, a figure of enormous weight from his work with David Bowie, Talking Heads, and U2. The X&Y period marked, as they themselves said, the end of “Oldplay,” and so they wanted to begin something new, to move in another direction