The beauty of music with so much emotion in it particularly when this guy sings just brings me too tears, I used to listen to this when I was being treated for cancer in 2007, I was obviously very lucky......Im very sorry for your loss
It is a special song. My wife turned me onto it. I met her in 65, lost track, met again online in 2006. Got married after all that , and this song would be part of our soundtrack.
Saw Snow Patrol open for U2 some years ago. He did the song this way and it blew me away! The entire stadium was quiet. It was one of the most amazing concert experiences of my life!
My late daughter loved this song, she used it on her on her phone as a incoming call tune, she was 38 when she died, taken from us to soon, I play chasing cars often to remind me of her, 😥
I feel for you man. I lost my daughter last year. She was 14. There are songs that she loved that I listen to a lot. I actually recorded one and made a video for it. Music can soothe even the deepest of wounds. Much love.
A perfect example of Less is more. So many musicians starting out think because they can't play like Gilmour or sing like Adele then they have no chance. Jesus Just be yourself
My wife's work colleague had this played at his funeral after dying of cancer. We found out in November 2022 that she had cancer. It's aggressive but we're still here. This song makes me cry every time I hear it.
I'm so sorry to hear. Please 🙏🥺 understand you will be separated for a short time but then when it's time you will be in heaven with your wife for eternity. Lord 🙏 please give these people strength and comfort and love. In Jesus name I ask you Lord amen 🙏
holy chills, when this song came out I was so young and my parents got divorced. this was one of her go to songs to play in the car and it became one of my favorites as a kid. I tend to avoid it now that Im older because the emotion in it is so intense
My mom had breast cancer and I lost her last year. I used to listen to this song a lot. Listening to it over and over until I fall asleep and forget about everything. Cancer sucks. Go hug your mom while you still have her.
I lost the love of my life ... knew it was coming and I would play this over/over/over with her...enjoying every moment...the song fit...and now she is gone and I remember the joy we shared while she was with me, just being alive...we knew those were precious moments and now all i have are memories. But this is a beautiful song from the heart.
Tow years ago I met the most remarkable girl I've ever known. We had a few months before she started to disappear more and more. During the time we broke up I played a concert at my town and I played this song for her, hoping that she would come. She didn't. She never heard me sing it. And ever simce this song is tainted with the feeling I had on that stage, singing for someone who wasn't listening anymore. Gosh that's corny...
I´m about to drive to my female best friend of almost six years to play this song for her. The last two weeks we came each other very close and last night, we cuddled until we kissed. She is very confused about all that and does not know what to think or feel. I´m just plain in love with her. I was in love with her at the beginning of our friendship, and she didn´t return the feelings. But we got through it. And now, here we are. Something special in both heads. Guys, I just want you to know I love this women more than anything else I have. When i´m with her, I see us settle down, get one or two kids and just be at each others side until the end. I´m sure. I love her. I will give my best and play this song to her. Thank you for this wonderful live. I love you all and wish you just the best in your lives. Wish me everything good you can. Please. Thank you. Bye.
The chords for the whole song if you wasn't picking would be: A, E, D, A (same order for all of the song) If you was picking: 7th fret D + 9th fret G (pick D, G, D, G etc) 6th fret D + 9th fret G (pick D, G, D, G etc) Open D + 9th fret G (pick D, G, D, G etc) The chorus is A, E, D, A
To anyone here grieving, broken and bleeding inside; The tears on your face might feel like razors right now, I know you have loved and you have lost. But tell me what you feel in your chest, are your lungs filling with air? Is your heart still beating? Now is the time to rise and make the most of whats left, forget the pieces on the floor and leave them there. I love you and you CAN do this ❤️ now is a new chance to find yourself like never before. Breathe friend, pain is temporary and no match for you 🥰
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?
It is simple guitar but sit there and play it naked like this and you’re exposed if you put one little finger wrong! This is one of those songs that come along now and again and strike you to the core…. It’s rare these days but I have faith we might get something so raw and beautiful that snaps us back to music like this! Just think of music when it makes your hairs stand up on your arms! This was one of those songs for me ❤
This is by far Gary's most beautiful song. He has throughout the years made some incredible music. Nobody can touch the lyrical talent of this man. If all you've listened to is Snow Patrol please branch out and listen to some of his other musical projects like The Reindeer Section and Tired Pony. He doesn't disappoint in anything he does!
Exactly a week ago, I lost my dog Cutler. He was this beautiful, beautiful amstaff. One of the big loves of my life. We we're battling a cancer, something that was hurting his lungs so bad. I did all I could. We did. Had to make a donation campaign, you know... To pay all the bills through three different hospitals. It worked like magic! I never had so much people sending donations, sending love and hope. Sharing my letter asking for help. It was a beautiful touching moment. Sadly, even with the best meds I could get, it was his time. He almost died in my arms. We used to walk everyday, in the visit time, on the backyard of the hospital. He was always happy, and the walkings were just good. After the walk, me and Cutler would go back to the resting room (with all other dogs) and lay down on the floor. I'd give him a nice hug, sometimes I prayed with him in my arms, sometimes I just say "hey son, don't worry, you'll be good! This people are taking good care and making sure you'll heal!". Last thursday he got a attack in the walk. Had to take him in my arms and run back to the meds. They took him into oxygen. It was alright again. Than, another attack... Oxygen. Okay for now. Had to leave him, visitation time is up. While I was in the bus back home, got the call. Went home crying all the way. In the bus, at the street, at home. Than sometime this song rose up to me. The lyrics fits like magic. And somehow, it numbs the pain, the poetry donates a bit of hope and sense to my heart, you know? And that's why I thank Snow Patrol for. That's what art is all about.
This so sad . RIP Cutler . My dog died in my wife‘s arms . He loved her so , small woman and this big black boy . They were soulmates like there‘s no tomorrow…peace 😢
It’s incredible how a song is born. Two notes give birth; two more complete the song. To be sure, the lyrics are tantamount, and then it helps if your delivery works. And damn, this guy can sing, and that always helps. This is one of the best love songs ever.
I have revealed myself to You many times Yet You have not seen me Attach thyself to thee For there is no one more inward than I Fade into me as I fade into You
Love this song as it takes me back to spending the last 12 hrs in my mother's presence before she passed . When I hear it I feel her here . Love you mum
My wife was diagnosed with heart failure and made it. We lived this as a connection song. She planted a garden of trees when she was well. My severely alcoholic son nearly died and we would lie in be and cry to each other to bed to this when he was so yellow. Then the next year I was diagnosed with stage four cancer and it As a visual provided hope for me. Every time I hear it it makes me a mess, but he spoke to me heart so often.
Just have to say, ... 'No words'! - Just lost a GREAT elderly friend. She lost her beloved husband, best friend a few years ago & has missed him so. She fought cancer & had won the battle, however, recent health complications. She recently passed & this song was played on piano for her at her funeral by her youngest daughter... ONE LAST TIME🙏😇 She would play it for her all the time💕 What a timeless song🙏
There are several songs I can't sing because I start crying. Five For Fighting's "100 Years", Collin Raye's "Love, Me" and Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars".
I'm happy to hear that. Why? My voice is the same. Sometimes my own voice makes me cry. Wish I could met with this great artist to sing a song together. Maybe one day...
This brought a tear to my eye. It’s simple yet deep. The song captures deep emotional content that many of us think and feel. Listening to this artist play this song by himself was amazing. I’ve heard the song on the radio many times. However this version really made it came alive for me. I do not even have the right words to describe how great this sounded. I would love to see this guy live.
I can’t listen to this without crying. All the tough things I have been through, war, death of young men and constant physical pain in my body from years of doing what I thought was right...... I know that deep inside I am that 10 yr old boy whose still afraid of the dark without the woman I said “I do” . 😕
I sang this beautiful song to my new born baby.. As a first time mother I was engulfed by love, fear, and the feeling that nothing existed but my daughter. These lyrics touched on feelings of vulnerability, confusion, and completely being in the here and now.
Whenever I hear those first three notes, the song comes to me like an instinct, it is beautiful, and teaches us to be with one another while we still have the time.
I picked up the guitar 6 years ago and I play it every day even if its just for a few minutes while watching TV. Now I have 4 of them and I'm addicted LOL.
@@rogerblackwood8815 I've dabbled into songwriting a bit and I feel that if you really have something to say, any chords will do. But without emotion, if you're writing a song just for the sake of writing a song it won't sound good on the best chord progression in the world.
Roger Blackwood i think it really is just about the emotion you put into those simple notes or chords and the effects the edge for example uses to create an atmosphere that’s just beautiful
This is a beautiful song and I just stopped for gas in my SUV. I never gave the song a chance when I heard it on the radio I lost my mom to cancer she had lupus as well now here we are history repeating itself now I'm 36 and I have cancer. I love my beautiful wife Tamela I love my two beautiful children Ethan and Makayla. These are the kind of songsthat make your life so meaningful and Rich no matter how long you have or have short it's going to be I've come a long way in my life from being a songwriter for various musicians such as Jason Mraz and a few other artists that are Christian artists.that was one of my favorite songs that he is overdone simplicity and beautiful lyrics and that's all it is romanticizing just lying there and enjoying each other in the time that God has given us. This in my opinion is his big fish do you understand what I'm saying?
In four and a half minutes this man takes the listener into another world...if you are at work, bored out of your skull, fed up to the teeth with some job you hate doing...take a toilet break, some headphones, this version of this song, lock yourself in that toilet, maybe even cry a few tears which will help with stress.....and see and hear what the world should be like.................return to your seat in that crappy job...and SMILE inside. This is the PERFECT escape song...and SIMPLE.....................why does life have to be so complicated??
Reading these comments made me realize how truly lucky I am in my life right now. I just wish I could figure out how to make this clarity persist. I need to quit falling into these ruts where I lose sight of this. God, I am such a lucky person right now.
Amazing, just amazing. Gary Lightbody is so brilliant. Must see the group - Snow Patrol from NI. . I need to see and understand the full lyrics. I want Tom to play this at my funeral on acoustic. We need a singer. x
sangeeta banerjee it helps create a soundtrack to life. That any specific song at anytime can take u back to a moment and bring with it all the powerful emotions, and vivid details that weren’t necessarily consciously remembered at the time. Ever get that? Can give chills sometimes:)
@@dominicbarratt3433 thanks😊....so true...we relate well to a particular moment or a memory with songs... music searches the soul...soul searches the music that stirs, soothes and haunts it to go back to that moment... off course I do feel them nd the chills too. I don't limit myself to a particular genre or language...I explore a lot...and some get sorted out... it's a huge number but accessible... unlike books or movies.😊😊
Dominic Barratt isn’t it unbelievable that so many of us refuse to be vulnerable, and repress all of the powerful emotions that bring tears to our eyes. Feeling is what gives life meaning. Music is a gateway to that like nothing else
Goosebumps. Always liked this song but this performance was perfection. Glad the radio version is pretty much the same. Radio version just isn't THIS version. 😊
This song can have many different meanings and points of views. When I was younger, I thought of it in the point of view of a child watching cars drive by or of dogs chasing after cars. Than when I was a little bit older, I thought about it being about a relationship/crush or death/birth even. Love it no matter what.😗😗
I drove my daughters to london, hours and hours to get to the front. We stood there in floods of tears singing along to this. It means so much to so many people, as all great songs always have and always will.
This song touches so many nerves deep inside me it can be hard to stand up. If you are here today tell someone one and show them you love them and I hope you have a fantastic day today and forever.
Big fan of acoustic. My wife and I have had some problems recently and this song has really hit home with us. It says everything about how we feel about each other regardless of how life has separated us. I love you baby.
Dave, you need to let go, she's with me now and were having a baby, I figured this was probably the best way to break it to you, we both love you but it is time to face your reality - Your Loving Brother
Iron Feliks, you need to let go bro, she's with me now and likes ladies best. I figured this was probably the best way to break it to you. It is time to face your reality - Your Loving Sister
Gary, this song cannot be diminished by anything you (or anyone) may say or how many times it's said, this song captures (in a most pure way) something so special. Thank You
