Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars” is a very simple song, the lyrics are not that complex, yet the song is really exceptional (well to me anyways). I used to play this song everyday… several times a day. At the time I felt like this song was the soundtrack to my life. Between wanting to lay in the bed all day and forget the world, to being confused about love, “chasing cars” was the song that spoke to me. This song also makes me feel like I can do whatever I want, I always get a sense of freedom when I listen to it. I also love the way the music builds up as the song progresses. Although the lyrics allow the artist to express himself verbally, the piano and guitar provides the song with emotion and passion. Although the beat, instruments, and sound (which I do consider important) are things that usually attract people to songs; I am one who enjoys analyzing the lyrics and relating the words to my own life.
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?
- HESS
