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Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars Song Meanings
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._nemo_.
March 18th, 2007 05:43AM
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I don't know where you got the name Orlando from......
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
I know how this feels. You're so in love with someone,you don't care what anyone else tells you to do, even if the person is all wrong for you. If you love them, you do what you want.
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
You just want to ignore everything else, to have that perfect moment, to forget all the bad things that may be going on around you.
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
When you're in love, I love you can't fully express how you feel. It's said too often, too casually, to give the full meaning that you have inside.
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
This bit, I think may be just about wasting time in meaningless ways, just so you can be with that person a little bit longer.
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
You find a peace, a goodness, a happiness in that person, you want to be able to find it inside yourself, so that they feel the same way with you.
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
Could be metaphoric for you seeing yourself reflected in their eyes and you feel like you are a better because of them. Like you are even a part of them, and they are of you.
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
You may not remember where or how you met them, but you know you love them and you know that you wan to always love them. And you don't know what is going to happen later, but you don't want to stop being in love with them.
this is long and may be off track, but it works for me. :)
soccer101
October 17th, 2006 07:10PM
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To me this song is about finding someone who won`t get lost in the worlds many activities or events and won`t forget about you. Someone who will just ditch the world to be with you. Finnding someone you love so much that you cannot describe the way you feel about them, maybe you haven`t really met them but you know that some how you can`t forget about them. To find someone who won`t try and change you.
anonymous
November 10th, 2006 12:59PM
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How I interpreted it was that it's pretty much a "test" or whatever, so that if you really care about someone, you'll just forget about everyone else, or forget about what they think about you, and talk to someone, hang out with them, work something out with them.
anonymous
November 15th, 2006 09:53PM
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For me, this song is about two people who are in love, but because of their circumstances, they can never really be together. He just wants her to lie there with him, and for that moment, they can just forget about the world and be happy.
anonymous
January 9th, 2007 09:05PM
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This song is about someone that is deeply in love. The person is expressing how he/she feels as well as asking if the other person feels the same. "Those three words are said too much they're not enough". Even the words "I love you" are not enough to express how the person feels about the other, he/she is pretty much obsessed and wants the other person to feel the same way.
anonymous
February 4th, 2007 04:54PM
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I think it has nothing to do directly with dogs, but the "chasing cars" thing is a reference to dogs. I read that Gary Lightbody's dad gave him some advice when he was infatuated with a girl. He told his son, "You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it, and you wouldn't know what to do with it if you did." (I did read it on wikipedia, so you never know if it's real or not). But still, it makes sense. I think he's saying that he thinks he's so in love with her, but perhaps he knows they aren't meant to be together. He knows he will never have her in his life, and even if he did, it wouldn't bring him complete happiness anyway. He knows in the back of his mind that it is a hopeless case, but his passion is so overwhelming that he can't help but tell her he loves her.
anonymous
October 29th, 2007 05:11AM
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I think it's about wasting time, just being with the person you love and doing nothing, just being together and being happy doing nothing, not worrying about other people or circumstances. I love this song so much.
lady_v
May 24th, 2008 05:23PM
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Whenever I hear this song, I think that it's about two people who are in love but who are having problems caused by the pressures put on them by the world (romeo and juliet type stuff - maybe they aren't a good match for some reason that society imposes on them).
He wants her to lay with him so that they can just be together and for a moment, forget everything that they are told about why they won't work.
I think the chasing cars is meant to conjure images of a dog chasing a car, in the spirit that it is endless, impossible and yet fun, hopeful and a bit crazy. Similar to their relationship (except that it is "in their heads" rather than in the actual physical act of chasing cars).
I definitely would also see the interpretation of it as being a guy who wants a girl but can't get her for reasons unknown, however the line about her grace makes me think that he knows her well.
just my thoughts, I think the beautiful thing about lyrics is that they really mean whatever they mean to you, and the song represents whatever you are going through at the time!
anonymous
June 18th, 2008 12:11PM
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This song is about two people who are very much in love - they have that "untouchable" feeling that you get when you fall really deeply for a person. They don't need anyone or anything because to the two of them, each other is all they really need. They don't want to cheapen the phrase "I love you" because while its true, it truly doesn't encompass the way they feel. Maybe they've been told they aren't right for each other, but they don't care and want to see what becomes of what they have. She When they are together they can lose themselves in each other and forget everything going on around them. They don't care what they do, even if it is wasting time, they only want to be with the other person. He adores the way she brings out the good in him and is reminded of how she makes him a better person every time he looks in her eyes. She consumes his thoughs and he can't remember where it happened, or how it happened, he just knows he's fallen in love with her and that's enough.
Thanks for listening-
TJ
anonymous
August 22nd, 2008 10:49AM
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Love has been categorized and simplified by our daily lives living in a world that if full of strife and cynicism. This song expresses how powerful and simple love really is. If you are in love, you don't need anyone or anything except the person that you share the purity with. It is like a bright light, drowning out everything around us. It is so beautiful we are drawn to it but sometimes afraid to let the light shine on us. Everyone of us interprets love differently only knowing what we are taught and many times we will go our entire lives never experiencing it because we never really take the time to feel it. We never know when we will meet our soul mate or what we will have going on in our lives at the time, but to take the chance and make changes takes a great amount of trust and emotion. A garden of new life blooms, each flower delicate and precious we need to appreciate each one for what it is. To express to someone that you love them opens us up our inner self. How do you put into words how you feel about that other person. Sometimes it is suiting to lay there and share the moment, leaving everything that we know behind us. Being in the presence of our true love confirms our desire and need to live our life to its fullest. No matter how much we think of ourselves, this person can bring us right back to the reality of what we are. Chasing cars simplifies the complications of life, we all have things that we strive for maybe to never get them, but to share in the chase together unites two minds as one sharing the same goal. To live is to learn, to love is to live.
anonymous
November 24th, 2008 11:17PM
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My interpretation of this piece is...Looking past the world and it's entirety and seeing only one person. Even when everything else is so beautiful and prosperous; that one person will mean more than the world itself. To be that person being looked upon as something more important than the world would mean being the world. The line "Would You lie with me; And just forget the world", To me it shows, would the person be next to the person being looked upon as the world..give up their world just to be with the other.
anonymous
January 2nd, 2009 10:56AM
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She's dead. Watch the video. He's talking to someone he loved who is dead.
jhouston
May 2nd, 2009 02:14PM
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Did anyone ever think that this may be a song about a man and God? Look at the video where he lies in the field, forgetting the world, and stares into the majestic sky as if to be seeking or talking to God. He asks Him to lay with him yet he doesn't know what to say to Him. He asks for His Grace to find himself and then realizes all he ever was, was here in Your "perfect eyes". The only one with perfect eyes is God. Find your soul and who you are meant to be here on earth and don't waste time chasing worldly things like cars and houses.
anonymous
October 20th, 2009 12:50PM
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i think it's just the most simplist and beautiful of ways to say 'those three words' i love you. And asking if they feel the same.
anonymous
December 25th, 2009 11:58PM
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Every time I hear this song it makes me cry. For me, It's about someone finding perfect comfort from their old dog(after he had a bad day at work or went through trouble with family or friends). My little mixed breed dog passed away at the age of almost 18 shortly before I heard this song for the first time. He used to just snuggle up with me and help me forget the world. I saw the best in myself through his eyes and I never did know, really, how to say to others how I felt and still do feel about him.
"Those three words are not enough"
anonymous
December 26th, 2009 12:11AM
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The only relationships I've had complete confidence in to "never change" are those with my dogs. This song is about the dudes dog. (maybe passed on or very old)
anonymous
December 29th, 2009 02:47PM
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This song is about true love, a love you find once in a life time, (one unfortunately found with the right person at the wrong time)and they just want to lay there forever in that moment because of the others in their life, they had to walk way. By laying there they will always keep that feeling going (which will never go away even though they are not together). They don't know where or how as well, they just know that these things(feelings) will never change and someday they will experience that garden bursting into life with their "special friend"... because they are all that I am, all that I ever was and is in their perfect eyes...there all I see, every moment of every day. k:)
LCpumpkins110162
December 30th, 2009 12:51PM
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The lyrics of this song can fit anyone's inner desire and strong passion for their soulmate, their one and only true love. It's about only wanting that one true person in their life and being with them in the moment. Also, when they are able to meet, all they need, is to be together, or look into each others eyes, and feel each others grace that make them so fit for each other, because they don't need to change anything about themselves for one or the other to love them it just works. This song also had a huge impact on me for the loss of some loved ones, in their darkest hours, fighting a terminal illness, or suicide,i would of "just layed there with them" and stayed by their side thru the difficult hours, and just forgot about the world to carry them thru their despair. i could interpret this song to fit anyone i've loved or love, but my deepest passon and interpretation of this song is to my soulmate who I can't be with because of something that took us apart. So now and forever I interpret this song as follows, I'm without my soulmate, I can't be with him, so my only other deep passion is my faith in Jesus, if my soulmate can't be with me, the spirit and passion of my Lord can be...and always will be... until we meet again my love, that's how I feel this song.
LCpumpkins110162
December 31st, 2009 11:32PM
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In finishing, when someone is in love, they want to lay down with their one love, and forget everything surrounding them, they are soul mates, the relationship is effortless, and seamless, it needs nothing but each others grace, and . They truly need each other, but one might not be able to open themselves to the other again, because of something that hurt them both deeply. Those three words, are not enough I've said to much symbolize the words I Love You, anyone can say it, over and over, but to be able to feel it and hold onto it, in every kiss, every caress, every hug, is too really feel it, and one can only feel that with their soul mate. I only want my soul mate to share my deepest passion and pure desire. I only want to feel that "ONE" love.
anonymous
January 9th, 2010 04:08PM
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I might be wrong but I think it's about someone who died. I think when he says "if I just lay here, will you lay with me and just forget the world" he's talking about someone he loved, who died, so he wants to be with the person again, so he wants the person to lay with him, and not listen to any one/thing else. And he knows its impossible so its called chasing cars because he will always lay waiting for the person to come to him, but it will probably never happen.
Nickolai
February 10th, 2010 01:06PM
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This song is played at your funeral. It's what you want to tell everyone in the world about your life.
Everyone that posted an interpretation about being in love with someone is completely WAY off. Read the lyrics and think about what it is you want to let everyone know when you're dead. Every word is exactly what you want to say. When you're alive, love is every where but not said enough.
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