 During a track @-@ by @-@ track reveal , bassist Guy Berryman admitted that the song takes " a bit of inspiration " from Jimmy Cliff 's 1969 song " Many Rivers to Cross " . Berryman also added , " It becomes its own thing , kind of like points of inspiration that kind of lead you down certain paths . Whenever you want to write a song like someone else , it ultimately ends up sounding like something different anyway . " 
