so back to coldplay for a minute. what i like most about "in my place" is the guitar line, a thing of glacial beauty redolent of u2 and echo & the bunnymen ca. 1984. the song as a whole though lacks the immense humanism of the former and the egocentric pomp of the latter, and chris martin still sounds like he's singing in front of his vanity mirror (and like he's a grandiose dave matthews).