Why have I not heard this song until recently? Amazing stuff. Perhaps I’m overreacting. It’s just hitting me right now. I love the emotive/depressing/soaring-ness of it. It’s going on my playlist right next to Motorcycle Drive By.
Also, we are playing it at The Rock this Friday at Paul’s request.
By way of setting the bar… here it is for your enjoyment.
Here are the lyrics, for the curious:
“Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol
We’ll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don’t need
Anything
Or anyoneIf I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?I don’t quite know
How to say
How I feelThose three words
Are said too much
They’re not enoughIf I lay here
If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into lifeLet’s waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my ownIf I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?Forget what we’re told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that’s bursting into lifeAll that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can seeI don’t know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at allIf I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
November 6, 2006 at 1:39 am
YEAH SNOW PATROL!!!
November 6, 2006 at 7:57 am
Dude, I love Snow Patrol. I wish I had money for their new CD. Final Straw rocks socks too though, so I’m happy.
November 6, 2006 at 8:06 am
I think “your all I have” (first track) and “Warmer Climate” (last track) would both be sweet cover songs as well
November 6, 2006 at 9:06 am
Ahem…well, budgetary adjustment made…
November 6, 2006 at 9:24 am
i’ve liked that song from the first time i heard it. it’s really beautiful.
November 6, 2006 at 5:26 pm
I agree the the lyrics are quality, but the actual music gets pretty monotonous after about 30 seconds. Especially compared to Motorcycle Drive By.
November 6, 2006 at 10:42 pm
matt…. even I have heard this osng before. I think you might be losing music cred.
November 7, 2006 at 1:39 am
Hey, hey – let’s not encourage Matt to go back to listening to the radio. Things are much better this way.
December 4, 2006 at 12:51 am
I love this song and can understand the lyrics except for “Let’s waste time chasing cars around our heads”. What do you think they are referring to? Does it mean ideas or thoughts or dreams in your head?
May 24, 2007 at 3:32 pm
This song “Snow Patrol” – Chasing Cars just blew me away the first time I heard it. What an awesome song and more so because of the artist and his incredible voice. Now I want to know how I can buy the song. On CD? or only on Video?
Thanks