Chasing Cars

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"Chasing Cars"

Single by Snow Patrol
from the album Eyes Open
Released	July 24, 2006 (UK)
Format	CD; 7"
Recorded	2005
Genre	Alternative Rock
Length	4:27
Label	Interscope
Producer(s)	Garret Lee
Chart positions
#1 (Singapore) #4 (Canada) #5 (US) #6 (UK) #8 (Dutch Mega Top 50) #8 (Germany) #10 (Austria) #24 (Dutch Top 40)
Snow Patrol singles chronology
"Hands Open" (2006)	"Chasing Cars" (2006)	"Set the Fire to the Third Bar" (2006)

"Chasing Cars" is the third single from Snow Patrol's fourth album, Eyes Open. It was released on July 24, 2006 in the United Kingdom, as the album's second single.

The song was first heard on the band's 2005 Final Straw tour, when they began playing it, along with two other newly written songs ("Your Halo" and "It's Beginning to Get to Me") they intended to release on their upcoming album. Since then, the composition of the song was changed slightly, and most of the lyrics were rewritten.

"Chasing Cars" pushed its way onto the download and pop charts in the United States after it was heard in the second season finale of the popular television show Grey's Anatomy on May 15, 2006. Owing to the song's surprise popularity, it was released as an overlapping single in early June and the video was re-recorded to include clips from the show. The video failed to catch on, regardless, so a third version was filmed for the edited single version of the song. On September 13, 2006, the song soared in the digital music charts to become the most-downloaded song in the U.S. iTunes Store, just one day after the DVD release of the second season of Grey's Anatomy. It was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Rock Song".^[1]

Gary Lightbody, frontman of Snow Patrol, says it is the "most pure and open love song [he's] ever written." The phrase "Chasing Cars" came from Lightbody's Father, in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with, "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."^[2]

The band played "Chasing Cars" on a recent appearance on Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

The song was also featured during a highlights package at the end of the final episode of Big Brother UK Series 7.

A trance version of the song was recently remixed by Blake Jarrell & Topher Jones. It aired on the highly popular trance radio show A State of Trance on August 17, 2006. ^[3]

1 Formats and track listings
2 Chart performance
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Formats and track listings

UK Promo (released in July 2006)

"Chasing Cars" [radio edit] - 4:10
"Chasing Cars" [album version] - 4:27

UK CD (released July 24, 2006)

"Chasing Cars" [album version] - 4:27
"It Doesn't Matter Where, Just Drive" - 3:37

UK 7" (released July 24, 2006)

"Chasing Cars" [album version] - 4:27
"Play Me Like Your Own Hand" - 4:15

European CD (released in October 2006)

"Chasing Cars" [album version] - 4:27
"Play Me Like Your Own Hand" - 4:15
"It Doesn't Matter Where, Just Drive" - 3:37

U.S. Promo (released in July 2006)

"Chasing Cars" [Top 40 Edit] - 3:58

U.S. iTunes single (released June 6, 2006)

"Chasing Cars" [Live in Toronto] - 4:28

Special Dutch Edition

"Chasing Cars
"You're All I Have (live from BNN)"
"How To Be Dead (live from BNN)"
"Chasing Cars (live from BNN)"

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (2006)	Peak position^[4]
Australian ARIA Digital Track Chart	1
Singapore Top 20	1
UK Official Download Chart	2
UK Singles Chart	6
Latvian Airplay Top	3
Austria Single Charts	10
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	5
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	6
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	4
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	18
Dutch Mega Top 50	8
German Singles Charts	12
Irish Singles Chart	10
Dutch Top 40	21
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	8
Swiss Single Chart	40

[edit] References

^ "FOX Facts: Complete List of Grammy Award Nominations". Associated Press. December 7, 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2006.
^ Snow Patrol's MySpace profile
^ A State of Trance #264 Playlist
^ References for chart positions:
- Dutch Top 40. MegaCharts. Retrieved on October 6, 2006.
- Irish Charts – Top 50 Singles. IRMA. Retrieved on August 20, 2006.
- Latvian Airplay Top. Retrieved on August 6, 2006.
- Swiss Single Top 100 listing for "Chasing Cars". swisscharts.com. Retrieved on August 20, 2006.
- Official UK Download Chart. BBC Radio 13. Retrieved on October 1, 2006.
- Official UK Singles Chart. BBC Radio 1. Retrieved on October 1, 2006.
- Snow Patrol: Artist Chart History. Billboard. Retrieved on October 6, 2006.
Official ARIA digital track chart. ARIA Charts. Retrieved on November 6, 2006.

[edit] External links

Chasing Cars Lyrics

Discography
Snow Patrol
Gary Lightbody \| Paul Wilson \| Jonny Quinn \| Nathan Connolly \| Tom Simpson
Mark McClelland
Studio albums: Songs for Polarbears \| When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up \| Final Straw \| Eyes Open
Extended plays: \| Starfighter Pilot \| Live and Acoustic at Park Ave.
Singles: "Little Hide" \| "One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed" \| "Velocity Girl/Absolute Gravity" \| "Starfighter Pilot/Remixes" \| "Ask Me How I Am" \| "One Night Is Not Enough" \| "Spitting Games" \| "Run" \| "Chocolate" \| "How to Be Dead" \| "You're All I Have" \| "Hands Open" \| "Chasing Cars" \| "Set the Fire to the Third Bar"