This is your publicly serviced indoctrination. We've now researched the lawsuit. The "new" kids are involved in your lawsuit. The "old" ones know you well and look for justification in a public pension of energy. You need to open up. Regardless of whether your intention in seeking legal attention is for artistic balance or material balance. Your name is certainly (not unconsciously) drawing media attention.

I am your student by will alone, no gift from the teacher. I live on the opposite side of the country and we've never met. I have not ever spoken or communicated with you in any form.

Yet at 32, I remember back to my up-bringing and recently only found out about this lawsuit by chance. I know "If I Could Fly" very well. My reaction to the media hasn't changed my feelings towards your music in any way but I also was brought back to the simple understanding of songwriting.

I wrote this to post on this website when I was more angered by what I felt was a failure in your media behavior.

Joe, I am a ghost watcher. You’ve taught me many things…I think you actually gave me my ears. I feel though we’ve only spent my one sided time together that we have a relationship like many teachers and students do…separation being inevitable as chemistry is undeniable. First of all, thank you. I am bothered by the media amplifying the suit against Coldplay. It is one thing to hear lyrics and direct melodies designed as “hooks” being stolen and re-used by the un-imaginative. It is another thing to see an artist represented as taking legal action to claim financial or public stature because of theft of a song, or…really a chordal atmosphere. I hear a significant “If I Could Fly” influence in “Viva La Vida”. But it could also be a perfect coincidence. If it is not, whoever brought that element to the band on rehearsal day must have been impacted by the work of the origin profoundly. It was re-designed, made personal and done well. If you are that origin, you should realize great power. What I need to understand as a student who has been raised by you as a partner to other teachers is --"what do you know personally?" If you are personally privileged to knowledge that Chris Martin or Jonny Buckland has followed you incessantly for a long time and has CD’s to prove it, then I’d be quick to see your writing as an inevitable stain on their collective broadcast. But if they have never been interested in guitar playing on an endurance melody level, they might not have your media as personal influence. Therefore, they might not have been exposed. I have been exposed, and I know it. They would also. You can’t steal what you don’t know exists. So...... But what if they did? You, out of all performers understand that what is captured on tape is far from what is felt and conducted in real performance. I personally believe that when we are given the clarity to write great things, we are also given the chance to archive the performance. Live being many times, on tape being only as many times as we need to let them go. If Coldplay has re-vamped your take of “If I Could Fly” and marketed it as they have marketed their other material, then I see it as a celebration of powerful art. If you or any other person believes that there was a usage or influence un-credited, than the suit should be for only honesty. Coldplay should admit their inspiration. Someone should come to the table and said that “it is a song we were inspired to adapt"…the original composer should only take personal or financial gain from the honesty. Records will always sell.

This is your publicly serviced indoctrination. We've now researched the lawsuit. The "new" kids are involved in your lawsuit. The "old" ones know you well and look for justification in a public pension of energy. You need to open up. Regardless of whether your intention in seeking legal attention is for artistic balance or material balance. Your name is certainly (not unconsciously) drawing media attention.

I am your student by will alone, no gift from the teacher. I live on the opposite side of the country and we've never met. I have not ever spoken or communicated with you in any form.

Yet at 32, I remember back to my up-bringing and recently only found out about this lawsuit by chance. I know "If I Could Fly" very well. My reaction to the media hasn't changed my feelings towards your music in any way but I also was brought back to the simple understanding of songwriting.

I wrote this to post on this website when I was more angered by what I felt was a failure in your media behavior.

Joe, I am a ghost watcher. You’ve taught me many things…I think you actually gave me my ears. I feel though we’ve only spent my one sided time together that we have a relationship like many teachers and students do…separation being inevitable as chemistry is undeniable. First of all, thank you. I am bothered by the media amplifying the suit against Coldplay. It is one thing to hear lyrics and direct melodies designed as “hooks” being stolen and re-used by the un-imaginative. It is another thing to see an artist represented as taking legal action to claim financial or public stature because of theft of a song, or…really a chordal atmosphere. I hear a significant “If I Could Fly” influence in “Viva La Vida”. But it could also be a perfect coincidence. If it is not, whoever brought that element to the band on rehearsal day must have been impacted by the work of the origin profoundly. It was re-designed, made personal and done well. If you are that origin, you should realize great power. What I need to understand as a student who has been raised by you as a partner to other teachers is --"what do you know personally?" If you are personally privileged to knowledge that Chris Martin or Jonny Buckland has followed you incessantly for a long time and has CD’s to prove it, then I’d be quick to see your writing as an inevitable stain on their collective broadcast. But if they have never been interested in guitar playing on an endurance melody level, they might not have your media as personal influence. Therefore, they might not have been exposed. I have been exposed, and I know it. They would also. You can’t steal what you don’t know exists. So...... But what if they did? You, out of all performers understand that what is captured on tape is far from what is felt and conducted in real performance. I personally believe that when we are given the clarity to write great things, we are also given the chance to archive the performance. Live being many times, on tape being only as many times as we need to let them go. If Coldplay has re-vamped your take of “If I Could Fly” and marketed it as they have marketed their other material, then I see it as a celebration of powerful art. If you or any other person believes that there was a usage or influence un-credited, than the suit should be for only honesty. Coldplay should admit their inspiration. Someone should come to the table and said that “it is a song we were inspired to adapt"…the original composer should only take personal or financial gain from the honesty. Records will always sell.