Looking Out My Back Door

Chasing Cars

Since I hate listening to the radio, it's difficult for me to hear new music. Here's an embarassing example: the first "Charlie's Angels" movie had a kicking soundtrack, which I purchased. I particularly loved one song, and enthusiastically told a co-worker, "Hey, you've gotta listen to this great song, it's called 'Baby Got Back.'" When she picked herself up off the floor, still laughing hysterically, she informed me that it had been around for a while. Like YEARS. Whoops. Well, she never let me forget that, and would pop into my office now and then to announce that there was a really cool new song that I HAD to listen to, called "Hey Jude." Or "Flashdance." You get the idea.

Anyway, I still hear new music either purely by chance, or from the soundtrack of a movie or tv show. Today I was checking out a video post on Rosie O'Donnell's blog, called Snow Patrol. I heard the song, thought it sounded familiar, and needed to ID it so I could buy it from iTunes. My friend Erin recognized it right away -- "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol. When I looked it up on iTunes, I noticed it had been used in last season's finale of "Grey's Anatomy," which makes perfect sense. That show prides itself on selecting the ideal songs to go with the story being told, and there have been two "soundtrack" CDs released to date.

Here are the lyrics. I think they're beautiful.

Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol)

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?

posted by Hopster @ 1:02 PM