Chasing Cars

"Chasing Cars" is a popular ballad by Northern Irish alternative rock group Snow Patrol released in July 2006 as the third single from the band's fourth record "Eyes Open". It peaked at #6 in the UK, #5 in the US and #5 on the Billboard Modern Rock/Alternative Singles Chart. The song became popular in the US after being featured on the televison show "Grey's Anatomy" and has remained extremely popular in the UK, remaining on the UK Top 75 for a non-consecutive 85 weeks and still running. According to the Chasing Cars Songfacts, frontman Gary Lightbody wrote this in the garden of producer Garret "Jacknive" Lee's cottage after a white wine binge. He has since said that it's "the most pure and open love song I've ever written."

[Verse 1] We'll do it all Everything On our own We don't need Anything Or anyone [Chorus] If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? [Verse 2] I don't quite know How to say How I feel Those three words Are said too much They're not enough [Chorus] 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 burstin' into life [Verse 3] Let's waste time Chasin' cars Around our heads I need your grace To remind me To find my own [Chorus] 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 burstin' 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 [Outro] If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?