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Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

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 anyone

If 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 feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They’re not enough

If 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 life

Let’s waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If 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 life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see

I don’t know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

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10 Responses to “Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars”

  1. emily said on: November 6th, 2006 at 1:39 am

    YEAH SNOW PATROL!!!

  2. Dustin Schuur said on: November 6th, 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.

  3. teege said on: November 6th, 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

  4. Dustin Schuur said on: November 6th, 2006 at 9:06 am

    Ahem…well, budgetary adjustment made…

  5. nate said on: November 6th, 2006 at 9:24 am

    i’ve liked that song from the first time i heard it. it’s really beautiful.

  6. Megan said on: November 6th, 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.

  7. Angie said on: November 6th, 2006 at 10:42 pm

    matt…. even I have heard this osng before. I think you might be losing music cred.

  8. Pat said on: November 7th, 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.

  9. DDSmash said on: December 4th, 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?

  10. Barbara J. Sterne said on: May 24th, 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

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