Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (Learn English with Songs)

Lyrics

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?

Difficult Phrases and Words

1. bursting

   1. Context: Show me a garden that's bursting into life

   2. Definition: to emerge or spring suddenly

   3. Additional sentence: When she saw her present, she burst into happy crying.

2. Chasing

   1. Context: Let's waste time / Chasing cars / Around our heads

   2. Definition: an earnest seeking after something desired

   3. Additional sentence: “Don’t chase success. Be good at what you do and let it chase you.”

3. grace

   1. Context: I need your grace / To remind me / To find my own

   2. Definition: the quality or state of being considerate or thoughtful

   3. Additional sentence: The teacher gracefully responded to the student’s wrong answer.

4. Confused

   1. Context: Confused about how as well / Just know that these things will never change for us at all

   2. Definition: being disordered or mixed up

   3. Additional sentence: I get confused in math class.

Discussion Questions

1. What do you think this song is about?

2. Can you relate to anything in this song? Is there someone who you always want to spend time with?

3. The singer sings: “We'll do it all / Everything / On our own.” When you spend time with your best friend, do you prefer spending time with just your best friend or in a group of people?

4. The singer tells his loved one “Show me a garden that's bursting into life". The singer has high hopes and expectations for his partner, and he thinks that just his partner can give him life. Do you think this is healthy? Do you think this is romantic?

5. The singer tells his loved one “Let's waste time / Chasing cars / Around our heads.” He means that spending time with his partner is the most important priority. Activities with his partner, even with meaningless activities like chasing cars, is more worthwhile than any other activities, including productive activities. Do you think this is healthy? Do you think this is romantic? Would you want to be in a relationship with someone like this?