Difference: Chris Martin never wrote lyrics like following to make his worst lyrical moments forgivable...
"time is a train/makes the future the past/leaves you standing in the station/your face pressed up against the glass"
"in my dreams/I was drowning my sorrows/but my sorrows they learned to swim/surrounding me/going down on me/spilling over the brim"
"between the horses of love and lust/we are trampled underfoot"
"every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill their inspiration/and sing about their grief"
"a man will rise/a man will fall/from the sheer face of love/like a fly from a wall"
"and you can dream/so dream out loud/you know that your time is coming round/so don't let the bastards grind you down"
"and if you look/you look through me/and when you talk/it's not to me/and when I touch you/you don't feel a thing"
"they want you to be jesus/they'll get down on on knee/but they'll want their money back/if you're alive at thirty-three"
"Intransigence is all around/military still in town/armor-plated suits and ties/daddy just won't say goodbye/referee won't blow the whistle/god is good but will he listen/I'm nearly great but there's something missing/I left it in the duty free/it never really/belonged to me"
"you hurt youself/you hurt your lover/then you discover/what you thought was freedom was just greed"
"september/streets capsizing/spilling over down the drain/shards of glass/splinters like rain/but you could only feel your own pain/october, talks getting nowhere/november, december/remember, we just started again"
"so love is hard and love is tough/but love is not what you're thinking of/so love is bigger/bigger than us/but love is not what you're thinking of/it's what lovers deal/it's what lovers steal/you know I've found it hard to recieve/'cause you, my love, I could never believe"
"there's a kite blowin' out of control on a breeze/I wonder what's gonna happen to you/you wonder what has happened to me"
"a man dreams one day to fly/a man takes a rocket ship into the sky/he lives on a star that's dying in the night/he follows in the trail, the scatter of light"
"when the night is someone else's/and you're trying to get some sleep/when your thoughts are too expensive/to ever want to keep"
just to name a few.