Thread: Chasing cars

I invite you to interpret and enjoy this love song. Gary Lightbody, the front man of Snow Patrol said: " is the most pure and open love song I ever written"

What is your opinion? what is the meaning of the phrase "Chasing cars"?

"Chasing Cars"

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?

Jonatane,
Tan romántico que empalaga (y soy diabética)..............la canción refiere al efecto de "tontera" que genera en algunas personas el estar enamorado, y entiendo que tiene que ver con dejarse llevar, olvidarse del mundo, hacer cosas sin sentido (como perseguir autos) por el sólo hecho de que estas enamorado y nada más importa en el mundo...... Estaría bueno ver cuales fueron las canciones que este compositor escribió despues de esta, para saber si realmente el efecto siguió o simplemente la "mató" en el próximo tema. No en vano dicen que del amor al odio hay un solo paso....jajaja

PIM,

Buenisimo la forma en que interpretaste este tema, en mi opinion creo que "perseguir autos" es una metafora relacionada con perder el tiempo en algo que esta fuera de tu alcance, algo casi imposible de realizar. En el contexto de esta cancion trata de lo casi imposible o dificil que es estar junto a la persona que deseas. Es mi interpretacion no mas.
De estas caracteristicas solo escribio este tema pero te invito a escucharlos.

The way I interpret the idea of "Chasing Cars" is a time where you let go of what people say, what they think and who you are suppose to be in that moment, when they are "Chasing Cars", they are finally living. They are having fun and just enjoying. For that moment they don't have to worry about what they have to do or what they should be doing, they aren't worried about what's to come, they are living for right now, for that moment. To me the term, "Chasing Cars" means freedom in life, it doesn't matter if it's only for that second, or for a few hours. It's the courage to live, really live.