forget "lips like sugar" or "songbird," the ideal song for coldplay to cover is bread's "it don't matter to me." it is the very model of the selflessness, vulnerability, and magnaminity that chris martin attempts to imbue all of his songs with, even the ones that demonstrate a burgeoning political consciousness. "i never meant to cause you trouble"; "it don't matter to me if you take up with someone who's better than me"; "for you, i'd bleed myself dry"; "cause your happiness is all i want for you to find"; "so, i crawl back into your opening arms"; "cause there'll always be...an open heart waiting for you." coldplay is little more than bread gussied up to look like a rock 'n' roll band. but i like bread.