Chris Martin dedicates “Everglow” to Taylor Swift at Coldplay concert

Over the weekend, Taylor Swift gave three consecutive performances in Gelsenkirchen as the start of her seven-concert Germany tour on the Eras tour. In the next few days, the musician will travel to Hamburg and Munich, but she already misses the country. On Saturday, Coldplay conquered the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf as part of their Music of the Spheres tour. During the performance, Chris Martin introduced “Everglow” with a dedication to Swift.

“This is for Taylor Swift because she left town,” said the frontman. “This is for everyone who is sad today because Taylor had to move to the next town. So we sing this love song, this song about heartbreak and send it to Taylor, wherever she is today.” Gelsenkirchen and Düsseldorf are about 30 miles apart, but Swift’s absence is still felt.

“Everglow” appeared on Coldplay’s seventh studio album, A head full of dreams. In the first verse, Martin sings: “Oh, they say people come, people go/This special diamond was something special/And though you may be gone and the world doesn’t know/I still see you heavenly.”

Swift wrote about the same narrative in “Daylight,” a song from her seventh studio album. Lover. “I don’t wanna see anything else now that I’ve seen you/I don’t wanna think about anything else now that I’ve thought about you,” she sings in the chorus. “I’ve been sleeping for so long in a twenty-year-long dark night/And now I see daylight, I only see daylight.”

Swift will continue the Eras tour in Hamburg on Tuesday, July 23, while the Music of the Spheres tour has one more show in Düsseldorf before Coldplay heads to Helsinki, Finland later this week. Swift and Martin haven’t crossed paths creatively often throughout their careers, but Swift did perform an acoustic cover of Coldplay’s classic “Viva La Vida” in 2010.