 Genius Lyrics
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Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
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This slow-building ballad is Snow Patrol’s biggest-selling single. A main driving force behind the song’s success was its inclusion at the end of the Grey’s Anatomy Season 2 finale
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Snow Patrol – Run
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“Run” is a story of two people in a close relationship who are separated by circumstance. It is about a person giving final remarks to someone they may possibly never see again.
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Snow Patrol – Soon
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A song Gary Lightbody wrote about his father, Jack, who has Alzheimer’s disease, which causes the decline of mental faculties, including memory loss. The music video features Jack
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Snow Patrol – Wow
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[Verse 1] / Don't be scared of anything at all / Everything we have is all we need / All the spotlights streamin' into angry skies / It means there's no one watchin' as we leave
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Alpinestars – Snow Patrol, Part 1
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Snow patrol / Save your soul / Feel the cold / Taking hold (x3) / We scan our eyes across the land / In frozen time we're left behind / The ride is our mystery find / In search of
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Snow Patrol (Ft. Martha Wainwright) – Set the Fire to the Third Bar
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[Verse 1: Gary Lightbody & Martha Wainwright] / I find the map and draw a straight line / Over rivers, farms, and state lines / The distance from "A" to where you'd be / It's only
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Snow Patrol – Same
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[Intro] / Maybe somewhere else will not be half as cold as me / [Verse 1] / The curtains drawn, the winter sun makes patterns on your face / It looks like some kaleidoscopic
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Snow Patrol – Lifeboats
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Hold on hold on, let me get the words out before I burst / There's no truth at all poking at the giant eyes of ancient gods / Cool heads have failed now it's time for me to have my
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Snow Patrol – Don't Give In
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Gary Lightbody, lead singer and songwriter, said “‘Don’t Give In’ was originally about a friend going through a tough time but the more I wrote into it I realized it was about me
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Snow Patrol – What if This Is All the Love You Ever Get?
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[Verse 1] / Woah woah, what if this is all the love you ever get? / Woah woah, you'd do a couple things so differently, I bet / Woah woah, what if this is all the love I ever know
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Snow Patrol – Open Your Eyes
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When you find out this was the fifth single from Eyes Open, it almost boggles the mind. The track was huge for the band, charting well in the UK, Germany and Australia. There is
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Snow Patrol – Chocolate
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According to an interview with The Sunday Times, Gary Lightbody wrote this song after he cheated on his girlfriend.
I’d just cheated on my girlfriend — ex-girlfriend, obviously
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Snow Patrol – Life on Earth
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[Verse 1] / The first snow / First winter of my life / I was told it was the height of me / The first dance / Well, the first one that counted / Felt like my blood was built from
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Snow Patrol – New York
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[Verse 1] / If you were here beside me / Instead of in New York / If the curve of you was curved on me / I'd tell you that I loved you / Before I even knew you / 'Cause I loved the
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Snow Patrol – The Lightning Strike
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Part I: What If This Storm Ends? / [Verse 1] / What if this storm ends and I don't see you / As you are now, ever again? / A perfect halo of gold hair and lightning / Sets you off
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Snow Patrol – NYC
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[Verse] / Is this on? Is this on? Is this on? Is this on? / I am so too, I am so too, I am so too, I am so / Is this on? Is this on? Is this on? Is this on? / I am so too, I am so
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Snow Patrol – You Could Be Happy
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This track was not released as an official single by the band, although it did receive a video, which enhanced the theme of lost love and desperation in the face of extended
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Snow Patrol – Hands Open
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[Verse 1] / It's hard to argue when / You won't stop makin' sense / But my tongue still misbehaves and it / Keeps diggin' my own grave / [Chorus] / With my hands open / And my eyes
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Snow Patrol – The President
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[Verse 1] / I've run to ground / I've run from everyone that I have ever known / I'm aching cold / I'm aching from the bones, the very blood of me / [Chorus 1] / And it's broke
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Snow Patrol – Empress
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Snow Patrol offers an inspiring hymn for those breaking the silence and coming together in what seems like a revolution, with their song “Empress”.
It was released as the second
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Snow Patrol – Crack the Shutters
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[Verse 1] / You cool your bedwarm hands down / On the broken radiator / When you lay them freezing on me / I mumble can you wake me later / But I don't really want you to stop
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Snow Patrol – Lifening
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“Lifening” is the fifth single from Fallen Empires. The band frontman Gary Lightbody enlists the things he most desires from life. He stated that the song was written after his
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Snow Patrol – You're All I Have
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[Intro] / (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) / [Verse 1] / Train this chaos, turn it into light / I've gotta see you one last night / Before the lions take their share / Leave us in pieces
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Snow Patrol – Make This Go On Forever
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[Verse 1] / Please don't let this turn into somethin' it's not / I can only give you everything I've got / I can't be as sorry as you think I should / But I still love you more
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Snow Patrol – Shut Your Eyes
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Shut your eyes and think of somewhere / Somewhere cold and caked in snow / By the fire, we break the quiet / Learn to wear each other well / [
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Snow Patrol – Velocity Girl
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[Verse 1] / Oh, velocity girl what makes you go so fast / Is it the speed you're taking since you gave up the drinking / Oh, velocity girl, I can't keep up with you / Can't stand
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Snow Patrol – Disaster Button
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A little after twelve / The function suite was full / Of people I had never seen before / Ripped up ticket stubs / Confettied on the floor / It dawned on me I'd seen it all before
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Snow Patrol – Called Out In The Dark
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[Verse 1] / It's like we just can't help ourselves / Cause we don't know how to back down / We were called out to the streets / We were called out to the towns / How the heavens
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Snow Patrol – Heal Me
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A song that blends acoustic guitar and electronic beats, on the surface it looks addressed to a would-be lover to save them, but in reality Gary Lightbody wrote “Heal Me” for
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Snow Patrol – The Symphony
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[Verse 1] / Wooden floors, wooden floors whisper / And they creak under your sockless feet / A secret door, a door undiscovered / You knock so gently in case you're heard / A
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Snow Patrol – Take Back the City
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[Verse I] / Take back the city for yourself tonight / I'll take back the city for me / Take back the city for yourself tonight / Whoa whoa whoa / [Verse II] / God knows you've put
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Snow Patrol – Spitting Games
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[Verse 1] / I broke into your house last night / And left a note at your bedside / I'm far too shy to speak to you at school / You leave me numb, and I'm not sure why / [Verse 2
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Snow Patrol – How to Be Dead
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The first song on Snow Patrol’s Final Straw details a bitter conversation between a couple that seems to be about the infidelity of one of them. The song ends with one of them
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Snow Patrol – The Golden Floor
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Tell me that you wanna dance / I wanna feel your pulse on mine / Just treat me like a stolen glance / To yourself / A dark shape on a golden floor / A sleeping planet with a molten
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Snow Patrol – What if The Storm Ends
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The lyrics are written to fit into the concept of the album a hundred million suns. Talking about storms and lightning and planets and stars, All universal elements.
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Snow Patrol – On/Off
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[Verse 1] / I couldn't believe what I was seeing / Faces all screwed up like what I'd done / I didn't mean to hurt you so much / I knew it would hurt you but not like this / We all
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Snow Patrol – Fifteen Minutes Old
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[Verse 1] / I'm good for inspiration, aren't I / You will find / Close the door and I'll go anywhere / You take me to / From this bed on to so much more / Care for you I will / [
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Snow Patrol – This Isn't Everything You Are
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The three verses tell three stories of three different characters struggling:
1. Someone afraid to leave a bad relationship.
2. An alcoholic
3. Someone who just learned of the
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Snow Patrol – An Olive Grove Facing the Sea
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[Verse 1] / Sworn to secrecy / I might go after school / She was an angel / I saw her swimming there / I am in such a mess / I can't cope without this / She just teases me
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Snow Patrol – Ways & Means
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[Verse 1] / Getting too busy to make amends / I should try to make it right / Are you ready for the shit to hit? / I think you say you are, but aren't / Doctor, make it better
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Snow Patrol – The Finish Line
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[Verse 1] / The earth is warm next to my ear / Insect noise is all that I hear / A magic trick makes the world disappear / The skies are dark, they're dark but they're clear / [
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