But it was for quite a few of those years that I was wasn’t fit for anything. Lightbody did say, however, that songwriting often can’t be forced: not every song he’s written came as quickly as those in that session, as he goes on to describe the difficulty of reconciling writing songs for Wildness and his own personal struggles: “ Life on Earth was a drawn out process, that took five years to write that song. Our biggest record, and half of it was written in one night.” I was just literally it was all just coming out – listening back and the next day, I was like, ‘oh, we’ve got something here.’ Actually, five of those songs ended up on Eyes Open. So I wasn’t thinking about writing that either. He went on to describe the similar circumstances surrounding the group’s biggest hit, and the prolific writing session it came out of: “ Chasing Cars was written in a night where I wrote nine other songs. I was just thinking about writing a song.” I wasn’t thinking about writing a song that would end up being a big hit. He told Yates: “ Run was written at a time when I had nothing. Lightbody made the comments on the newly launched Humans of Music Podcast, where former Rolling Stone editor Rod Yates interviews musicians about their lives. He also discussed how he didn’t expect the song Run to become as big of a hit as it did when it was written.
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Would you lie with me and just forget the world? The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: 30DaySinger.Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has spoken about the marathon writing session that led to almost half of the album Eyes Open being written in one night. Just know that these things will never change for us at all Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see Show me a garden that's bursting into life Would you lie with me and just forget the world? The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: We'll do it all Ten years later, it was revealed as the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio. In 2009, UK music licensing body PPL announced that "Chasing Cars" was the most widely played song of the decade in the UK. It has also sold 3,900,000 copies in the US by January 2015, making it one of the top best-selling rock songs in the digital era. As of 2019, the song has spent 111 weeks in the official UK top 75, 166 in the top 100 and had sold over one million copies in the UK by October 2013. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007, "Chasing Cars" was nominated for Best Rock Song, and at the 2007 Brit Awards it was nominated for Best British Single. Released in the post-Britpop period, the song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song is Snow Patrol's biggest-selling single to date, ending 2006 as that year's 14th best-selling single in the UK and that year had the distinction of being the last song performed live on the BBC's Top of the Pops. "Chasing Cars" became notable as one of the songs that revealed the impact of legal downloads on single sales in the UK, selling consistently for years after its release. The song gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy, which aired on. It was recorded in 2005 and released on 6 June 2006 in the United States and 24 July 2006 in the United Kingdom. It was released as the second single from their fourth studio album, Eyes Open (2006). "Chasing Cars" is a song by Scottish-Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol.