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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?
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?
Lyrics submitted by paulyboy82
Track duration: 04:26
"Chasing Cars" as written by Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Jonathan Graham Quinn, Tom Simpson, Paul Wilson
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"I LOVE YOU".
People say it too much when they don't mean it (even if they *think they mean it, and are just confusing passion and desire for actual love).
He just wants the pressure off. He doesn't know how he feels and he doesn't trust how she feels yet. He's saying "today is sufficient for today". Let's just be here in the moment and not get caught up in all that noise. No games. Just be here and breathe and let's let the stream of consciousness (the cars racing around his head) slow down.
Just lay here, lay here with me, and let's forget the world.
"Chasing Cars" could apply to any variety of love, be it friendship love (like what I just said about Timon, Pumbaa & Simba), parent-child love (my mom & I sing this together sometimes), pet-human love (as many people have said, possibly a dog and master), sibling love (depends on the siblings and the moment, I guess...I've never had a sibling living in my house, but, while I have older brothers that were grown before I was born, I still wish I had a younger sibling, it's lonely being the only kid in the house, especially since I've always been EXTREMELY young-at-heart and no-one ever truly understands me), other family love, or, yes, romantic love (Timon & I).
"you are like a dog chasing a car, if you caught it you wouldn't know what to do with it
He stated it was his "purest love song". The phrase "Chasing Cars" came from Lightbody's(lead singers) father, in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with, "You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and you just wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."
For me Chasing Cars is a metaphor of going after something that you cannot reach anymore because you've either missed your chance or you had it but "the car" needed to pass anyway. Even though you understand that you need to move on in a different direction and stop wasting time chasing that car you still feel the necessity to take a moment. A moment to remember, a moment to stay a little bit longer and a moment of not thinking about the future yet. After that you need to GO ON...