The second single from the 2006 album Eyes Open after the album opener and rocker, “You’re All I Have,” “Chasing Cars” is the most recognized song by Snow Patrol. The band’s frontman and songwriter Gary Lightbody said that he wrote the song after sobering up after a white wine binge in the garden of producer Jacknife Lee‘s cottage. Lightbody told Rolling Stone that “Chasing Cars” is “the purest love song I’ve ever written. There’s no knife-in-the-back twist.” He stated that “all the other songs I’ve written have a dark edge.” While the song and video for “Chasing Cars” don’t have a dark side, the connotation the song has with dramas like Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill certainly wields the knife so carefully left out by the songwriter.
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