Viva la Vida

Parlophone, under Warner. Power, and the morning after power.

Parlophone released it. Warner holds Parlophone. The chorus is so bright that people miss the confession: he held a world and did not hold it well, and now he sweeps the streets he used to own.

A parent, a boss, a person who had the last word for too long can hear themselves in it without a palace.

The eight

Industry
8/10
A choir of strings used for a fall, not a triumph.
Household
3/10
No house. A palace, emptied.
Piety
5/10
Bells, Jerusalem, a missionary. He knows the words and he lost the right to them.
Courage
6/10
He says the defeat in public.
Republic
7/10
A ruler, and what he owed. The song is the bill.
Temperance
6/10
No revenge fantasy. A looking back.
Truth
8/10
I used to rule the world. He does not still pretend.
Stewardship
7/10
A warning about the chair, useful in a small house too.

Live historicallyIf you have had the last word in this house for a long time, play this, then ask what you ruled badly.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1967

Motown · Universal Music Group

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Motown, under Universal. The promise is arrival. They do not say it will be easy.

Tamla and Motown put it out. Universal holds Motown. The record is a duet that will not let the other singer be alone in the vow. That is rarer than the hook suggests.

Use it as a promise you intend to keep this week, not as a feeling.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Two singers locked in time. That is craft.
Household
7/10
A person, coming. The distance is not a metaphor only.
Piety
5/10
Devotion, said at full voice.
Courage
6/10
They name the obstacles and refuse them.
Republic
4/10
Two people. The promise is still witnessable.
Temperance
6/10
Big, and it stays on the promise.
Truth
7/10
No small print in the chorus.
Stewardship
7/10
A standard of showing up.

Live historicallyTell someone you are coming. Then come.