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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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Snow Patrol set the chasing cars fire roaring
By André Paine, Evening Standard found at
thisislondon.co.uk
Gawky: nervous frontman Gary Lightbody plays a polite
guitar
If they weren't so modest, Snow Patrol might reasonably have expected
to be crowned band of the year.
They have, after all, got the biggest-selling album of 2006 - Eyes Open
has shifted 1.3 million in the UK - and Chasing Cars was a hit single in
the US.
After a decade's slog as part of the Scottish indie scene, the group
have certainly paid their dues.
But by general consensus, the music critics put newcomers Arctic
Monkeys at the top of the end-of-year polls while Snow Patrol were largely
ignored.
The first of two nights at Wembley was a huge celebration for their
fans, though, and Belfast-born singer Gary Lightbody seemed content with
that.
Like Coldplay before the celebrity kicked in, Snow Patrol don't even
try to be fashionable - and last night they were avowedly gawky.
"I'm not the coolest man in the world even at the best of
times," admitted Lightbody-when he nearly fell over on stage.
After opening with a plodding Spitting Games, the singer also confessed
to anxiety about their biggest London gig to date: "F***ing hell, are
we nervous!"
But if songs such as Chocolate were lightweight, at least the sound was
pounding through the venue. Lightbody's performance, however, suggested he
has much to be modest about. His voice was decent enough, but the demure
presence was not always convincing and even his guitar playing seemed
overly polite. He kept thanking people too.
It was, at times, desultory stuff, as older material sat awkwardly
alongside the hits, which didn't always have the necessary impact. But
over 90 minutes the band just came out on top. This was in part due to the
extraordinary support of their fans, who made a lot of noise for admirers
of unassuming indie-rock, and also because Lightbody never gave up on his
songs.
Chasing Cars appeared midway through the set and soon had the crowd
singing it by themselves. By this point, Lightbody was transformed into a
frontman you could believe in. His duet with a female vocalist on Set The
Fire To The Third Bar was an intense heartbreak anthem, while Make This Go
On Forever was simply epic.
As well as throwing various shapes, Lightbody was by now whipping
around the stage, smacking his guitar. But the enduring image is of a
good-humoured, polite pop star who hasn't got carried away by success.
Nicest band of the year, then - no contest.
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