Lyrics for Chasing Cars as interpreted by paulyboy82

Chasing Cars Lyrics
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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enderu
03-28-2006

Rated +4 
Like any good songs I think the lyrics are open to multiple interpretations, but for me the song reminds me of those beautiful summer evenings getting to know someone, hoping they feel the same way about you, but feeling like you could live in those moments forever. Without question an amazing song, hopefully a single as well.

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i keep it inside
03-29-2006

Rated -1 
i think the lyrics are quite vague, but enderu has summed it up quite well. a very beautiful song, my favorite from the new album.

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enderu
04-05-2006

Rated +2 
When asked about his favorite song, Gary replied

"chasing cars. just did the vocals for that this morning. the vocals have been refined and i think it's the purist love song i've written. no tinges of darkness or misery, just totally up lifting. - garyL"

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lawfuldrugs
04-30-2006

Rated +2 
"Chasing cars", so much innocence in these two words

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Kurdt_Kobane
05-04-2006

Rated -5 
Chasing Cars means Chasing Girls and the singer to snow patrol's father kept on telling him he'd be chasing cars for his life.

These lyrics are incorrect.

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xstayxhumblex
05-04-2006

Rated +1 
The meaning to this song for me, is that over all the madness in the writer's(lyricist;Gary) life there's only one special person who keeps him grounded, and this song kind of describes his love and how blessed he is to have her in his life.

The simplicity of the lyrics and music somehow seem so beautiful, this is my favourite song in the record.

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bloc_party15
05-07-2006

Rated +2 
On the snow patrol thing this morning that i watched, gary said his father used to tell him chasing girls was like chasing cars, he wouldn't know what to do if he got one - i think anyway, still a really beautiful song

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emo_punk_chick
05-16-2006

Rated -2 
Wow! This song is amazing....it was on the season finale of Grey's Anatomy and it just fit the mood so perfectly. It is a touching song with so much emotion, on GA it made me cry so much. I am in love with this song!

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davidecoyote
05-18-2006

Rated +2 
Idealized love, that's what I hear. This song seems to be the beautiful side of ignoring reality through love, whereas the next song, Shut Your Eyes, seems to be about the dangerous side. Track 4 leads to track 5 and it is eventually revealed that this is a naive state of mind. For however good it feels in the moment, it's a set-up for disaster.

The theme of the album shows up in the line, "Here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see". It's not shut your eyes, but it is some form of blindness.

There is also the matter of lying down on the ground, which appears in this song, Set the Fire to the Third Bar, and Warmer Climate. For some reason, I picture this song as a couple with their backs to the ground, staring up at the stars. It would stand to reason that the ground could represent reality, as they would have their backs to reality in this song, later to be faced as "cold" reality and "warm" reality in the other songs, respectively.

I can't get used to the title, though, it just doesn't seem like the heart of the song to me. The explanation, "he wouldn't know what to do if he caught one" makes sense, but I still don't like it.

Great song though, I can't pick on it too much. This is simply a great album.

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freethegoldfish
05-19-2006

Rated +1 
Reminds me of my friends. Good friends will just sit with you and do nothing, will cheer you up, will love you forever.

Chasing cars reminds me of "Trainspotting"--it's just doing nothing. Like what kids do when they hang out together.

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cambo
05-21-2006

Rated +1 
"All that I am, all that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see"

Fantastic lyrics, not soppy or twee just beautiful. A great love song and great for cheering yourself up when feeling a bit down.

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JuliaKnowsStuff
05-23-2006

Rated -2 
I first heard this song on Grey's Anatomy. It had me sobbing and I'm now addicted.

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aperfectsonnet 70x7
05-30-2006

Rated -1 
best song off the new cd. this is one of those beautiful songs that you can just really listen to and escape from everything and just dream..

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wolf cub
06-02-2006

Rated -2 
On Grey's Anatomy Woo Hoo! I love that show it so fitting with Izzy and Meredith and Derek. Brilliant! It's a GREAT song! 'Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.' It's all in that line.

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sparklefaerie
06-04-2006

Rated 0 
these lyrics should be;

«those three words are said too much
they're not enough»


this song is amazing. i love it. i listen to it with my boyfriend and it's perfect.

i love the music -- how it builds up and then goes all quiet again. s'pretty.

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benji-07
06-05-2006

Rated +1 
I love this song, I'm singing along to it over and over

it's about finding love and letting go of all other things,

"forget what we're told, before we get too old"

to me this line describes the nature of love perfectly...sometimes to understand you have to forget what you already know, and look for different answers

also to live!! and abandon common sense every now and then

again I loved this song, snow patrol are moving up my list of fav bands very quickly

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addiction9
06-06-2006

Rated +4 
those three words/are said too much/they're not enough

that is one amazing lyric

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Raqael
06-08-2006

Rated -1 
Can't even describe how much I love this song, along with Warmer Climate. Beautiful, beautiful lyrics and amazing vocals.

xXx

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Crimson_heartfoil
06-09-2006

Rated +1 
This song makes me feel so sad. I think it's about loving someone so intensly, you really can't live without them. Not being certain if they feel the same way about you.
I love the lyrics theyre so powerful, and the fact that he says them slowly and clearly helps you make sense out of them.

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apollo IV
06-10-2006

Rated 0 
i will admit that snow patrol never really struck my fancy with any other song than "run" and and that i didn't really care for any of the other ones but then i heard this one and i completely fell in love. it's meant to exhume beauty in every word and chord. i adore it and have been listening to it non stop.

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CHASiNGCARS
06-11-2006

Rated -1 
This song is so beautiful. The lyrics are beautiful the tune is beautiful.

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AdanaC
06-12-2006

Rated +1 
"Show me a garden that's bursting into life"
The line obviously means he only wants to see good things in life. This song is positive and to me it's about ignoring reality cause that really means making everything more complex and hard to understand. Everyone wants to ignore all the bad things in life and Gary is probably saying this girl helped him forget. The lyrics are so real I can actually feel what he is saying. Greatest song on the album.

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Misseverus
06-14-2006

Rated -1 
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever...

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mellohighlife
06-15-2006

Rated 0 
I've had this song on repeat for 2 days now

and I can't stop listening

and it's a tearjerker for me. It's exactly what I want out of a relationship, and makes me think of my last one, which is still very important to me.

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Purifiedx
06-18-2006

Rated -1 
I saw the video to this two nights ago on insomniac music theatre and when it came on I just froze and watched with my mouth dropped to the floor. It's probably the best video I've ever seen. It fits my style EXACTLY. I got the cd the next day... and I've watched the video countless times.

The video makes the song SO much better, and it's already fantastic without it.

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