Coldplay - Violet Hill
Time: 1:38
Hollowed out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft
Bury me in armour

suggestion; at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship
Heard in 43 songs (283M+ combined views) — most famously in "Violet Hill" by Coldplay.
Updated August 13, 2026
Time: 1:38
Hollowed out to fit their rifles
And the cross was held aloft
Bury me in armour

Time: 3:23
We'll shatter the ceilings
Slaughterhouse in the building, middle fingers aloft
Say what I think when I rhyme, in ink-pen I talk

Time: 0:56
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
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Time: 1:06
Well, we do not need to be told
Show me now, show me the arms aloft
Every eye, trained on a different star

Time: 0:58
I sailed a schooner 'round the horn to Mexico
I went aloft to furl the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off, they said that I got killed

Time: 2:26
I just dropped like 30 Xannies (Xanax) in a sip jar
I'm a rockstar, yes, I'm talking lobby at the ALoft (ALoft)
If I see you, I'ma wet you,

Time: 2:05
Furling forests for the soft
Gotta know been lead aloft
So I'm ridding all your stories

Time: 0:22
Born ov a harlot nun
Reign high in luxury aloft the kings ov man
I use words sharp as a sword

Time: 0:19
To a life, sheltered in... Less than zero in me
All my walls falling down... Pains aloft, misery
I'm sure that the lessons were learned

Time: 0:29
Every Monday he'd say grace
And hold our juice aloft
Oh, none of us knew

Time: 1:11
Towering fuming smokestacks loomed
Aloft the emancipated industrial
mercantile maroon

Time: 0:23
And we usher our children into the shade
In the warm summer silence suspended aloft in the air
There a cricket sings alone

Time: 0:36
When I'm swimming in your ocean
Floating aloft on creams
And scented lotions

Time: 1:37
Claws tear at his face, pull the flesh from bone
Decapitate the man, they hold his head aloft
Headless body slumps, the blood is gushing out

Time: 1:17
Over the hills and down the valleys
Soaring aloft and far below
Lying on stony ground the fragments

Time: 2:27
I heard them constructing, the scaffold (scaffold)
Where I'll be lynched aloft high
The thoughts of me to die

Time: 1:15
The same speed you drink singles
Ah beautiful, the barman holds aloft the crystal glass
And I'm having all that's in the bubble in the bottom of the bottle

Time: 0:36
Pecking my way through the trees
When something aloft cuts my head right off
Now I'm dealing with decapitation

Time: 1:11
When I'm out on the bay
You're aloft in the airway
When I'm alone at night

Time: 2:08
Her laughter
Shalt sound aloft their future graves
Heavens above

Time: 1:58
The man I used to be
They held their babes aloft
Threw marsh mellows at the Security

Time: 0:44
It's so hard to wonder why when you don't feel worthy of
Being aloft, wherever wind may blow
You don't let your balloon touch the ground

Time: 2:02
There she sits aloft a perch
Strangest color blue

Time: 19:42
Your cash is fine but credit is preferred
When I held myself aloft,
I walked across the water

Time: 0:08
Tonight's forecast called for possible storms
Weather report, winds aloft unstable
Counting on binging on a smörgåsbord of cable

Time: 1:07
I sailed a schooner around the horn to Mexico
I went aloft to furl the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they say that I got killed

Time: 3:07
And I would take to weeder walks, so the gin I stopped a drinking
At three scores aloft this crooked frame
The striker's boast would fain me loss, about the wrecks the shoals were keeping

Time: 0:45
Wanton flame and our powder kegs met
While I swam for my life there came voices aloft
Joyful, unearthly and dread

Time: 0:51
I've wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence
Hovering there, I've chased the shouting winds aloft
And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air

Time: 1:26
She often lies enraptured as she dies
And gazes on white visions aloft
Which like a blossoming to heaven rise

Time: 0:31
Daydreams
Aloft on dark wings
Soft as the sun streams

Time: 0:24
Way, haul away, we'll haul away, Joe
It's every man aloft, my boys, or we'll be drivin' under
Way, haul away, we'll haul away, Joe

Time: 1:08
Constructn a weightless world to hold
Aloft my shoulders
Actions do speak louder than words

Time: 1:04
May I remind you of that scene
We were arms aloft in Aberdeen
May I remind you of that scene

Time: 2:28
This is where I'm jumping off
This is where I sail aloft

Time: 3:18
As the vain man went by her
Aloft in the air

Time: 3:37
Jumping from a balloon
A carried aloft by a parachute in June
Twisting round and round

Time: 1:35
The Baron swayed on his feet
And held aloft the claw
We all said, "phwoar"

Time: 0:31
Exquisite jewel I see afar
Aloft in heaven's height so far from me
Sands of time, won't you give some sign

Time: 2:01
The curve of the hill is green and soft
As if the wind would hold you aloft
♪

Time: 1:34
We buried his treasure along with the bones
Arms held aloft
A Y to the sky

Time: 0:22
whiskey-oh, Johnny-oh, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey-oh,
up aloft this yard must go
come rise him up from down below.

Time: 0:41
With your beauty as my guide
I'm held aloft until, transformed
I fill your boundless raven skies
