Snow Patrol - Greatest Hits

Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?) And I don't see you As you are now Ever again The perfect halo Of gold hair and lightning Sets you off against The planet's last dance Just for a minute The silver forked sky Lit you up like a star That I will follow Now it's found us Like I have found you I don't want to run Just overwhelm me What if this storm ends? And leaves us nothing Except a memory A distant echo I want pinned down I want unsettled Rattle cage after cage Until my blood boils I want to see you As you are now Every single day That I am living Painted in flames And peeling thunder Be the lightning in me That strikes relentless

Chasing Cars 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 you'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 you'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

Run I'll sing it one last time for you Then we really have to go You've been the only thing that's right In all I've done And I can barely look at you But every single time I do I know we'll make it anywhere Away from here Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear Louder louder And we'll run for our lives I can hardly speak I understand Why you can't raise your voice to say To think I might not see those eyes Makes it so hard not to cry And as we say our long goodbye I nearly do Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear Louder louder And we'll run for our lives I can hardly speak I understand Why you can't raise your voice to say Slower slower We don't have time for that All I want's to find an easy way To get out of our little heads Hush Hush my dear We're bound to be afraid Even if it's just for a few days Making up for all this mess

Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear

Set the Fire to the Third Bar (featuring 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 b It's only finger lengths that I see I touch the place Where I'd find your face My fingers in creases Of distant dark places I hang my coat up in the first bar There is no peace that I've found so far The laughter penetrates my silence As drunken men find flaws in science Their words mostly noises Ghosts with just voices Your words in my memory Are like music to me And miles from where you are I lay down on the cold ground and I Pray that something picks me up And sets me down in your warm arms After I have travelled so far We'd set the fire to the third bar We'd share each other like an island Until exhausted close our eyelids And dreaming pick up from The last place we left off Your soft skin is weeping A joy you can't keep in

Called Out In The Dark 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 into the towns And how the heavens they opened up Like arms of dazzling gold With our rain washed histories Well we do not need to be told Show me now show me the arms aloft Every eye trained on a different star This magic this drunken semaphore We are listening and we're not blind This is your life this is your time I was called out in the dark By a choir of beautiful heat And as the kids took back the parks You and I were left with the streets

Chocolate This could be the very minute I'm aware I'm alive All these places feel like home With a name I'd never chosen I can make my first steps As a child of 25 This is the straw, final straw in the Roof of my mouth as I lie to you Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at the time You're the only thing that I love It scares me more every day On my knees I think clearer Goodness knows I saw it coming Or at least I'll claim I did But in truth I'm lost for words What have I done it's too late for that What have I become truth is nothing yet A simple mistake starts the hardest time I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time

Just Say Yes I'm running out of ways To make you see I want you to stay here Beside me I wont be ok and I wont pretend I am so just tell me today and Take my hand Please take my hand Just say yes Just say there's nothing holding you back It's not a test Nor a trick of the mind only love It's so simple and you know it is you know it is... yeah We can't be to and fro like this All our lives You're the only way to me The path is clear Do I have to say to you, For god's sake dear Just say yes Coz I'm aching, I know you are too For the touch Of your warm skin as I breathe you in I can feel your heart beat Through your shirt This was all I wanted All I want It's all I want

Open Your Eyes All this feels strange and untrue And I won't waste a minute without you My bones ache my skin feels cold And I'm getting so tired and so old The anger swells in my guts And I won't feel these slices and cuts I want so much to open your eyes Cause I need you to look into mine Tell me that you'll open your eyes Get up get out get away from these liars Cause they don't get your soul and your fire Cause they don't see what I see in you Take my hand knot your fingers through mine And we'll walk from this dark room for the last time Every minute from this minute now We can do what we like anywhere I want so much to open your eyes Cause I need you to look into mine

Shut Your Eyes Shut your eyes and think of somewhere Somewhere cold and caked in snow By the fire we break the quiet And learn to wear each other well And when the worrying starts to hurt And the world feels like graves of dirt Just close your eyes until You can imagine this place Yeah our secret space at will Shut your eyes I'll spin the big chair And you'll feel dizzy light and free And falling gently on the cushion You can come and sing to me Shut your eyes and sing to me

Crack the Shutters 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 And you know it so it doesn't stop you You run your hands from my neck To my chest Crack the shutters open wide I want to bathe you in the light of day And just watch you as the rays Tangle up around your face and body I could sit for hours Finding new ways to be awed each minute Cause the daylight seems to want you Just as much as I want you It's been minutes it's been days It's been all I can remember Happy lost in your hair And the cold side of the pillow Your hills and valleys Are mapped by my intrepid fingers And in a naked slumber I dream all this again

You Could Be Happy You could be happy and I won't know But you weren't happy the day I watched you go And all of the things that I wish I had not said Are played in loops til it's madness in my head Is it too late to remind you how we were Not our last days of silent screaming blur Most of what I remember makes me sure I should've stopped you from walking out the door You could be happy I hope you are You made happier than I'd been by far Somehow everything I own smells of you And for the tiniest moment it's all not true Just do the things that you always wanted to Without me there to hold you back don't think just do More than anything I want to see you girl Take a glorious bite out of the whole world You should be happy no matter what

Spitting Games 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 I find it easier to sit and stare Than push my limbs out towards you right there My heart is bursting in your perfect eyes As blue as oceans and as pure as skies I struggle for the words and then give up My heads up with the birds on the t-hut A little piece of mind that I know better Than the plain disgrace of all my letters But after that the floodgates opened up And I fell in love with everyone I saw Please take your time I'm not in any rush And it's in everything I ever write It's not as if I need the extra weight Confused enough by life so thanks a lot Lonely written words for company Just raise the roof this once and follow me

Take Back the City Take back the city for yourself tonight I'll take back the city for me Take back the city for yourself tonight God knows you've put your life into its hands And it's both cradled you and crushed But now it's time to make your own demands All these years later and it's killing me Your broken records and words Ten thousand craters where it all should be No need to put your words into my mouth Don't need convincing at all I love this place enough to have no doubt It's a mess, it's a start, it's a flawed work of art Your city, your call, every crack, every wall Pick a side, pick a fight, but get your epitaph right Or you can sing til you drop coz the fun just never stops I love this city tonight I love this city always It bares it's teeth like a light And spits me out after days But we're all gluttons for it We know it's wrong and it's right For every time it's been hit Take back the city tonight Tell me you never wanted more than this And I will stop talking now One perfect partner one eternal kiss Take back the city for yourself tonight

I'll take back the city for me Take back the city for yourself tonight

Make This Go on Forever

You ever uttered to me was love (x2)

Please don't let this turn into something 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 than anyone else could

And I don't know where to look My words just break and melt Please just save me from this darkness

All that I keep thinking throughout this whole flight Is it could take my whole damn life to make this right The splintered mast I'm holding on Won't save me long Because I know fine well that what I did was wrong The last girl and the last reason To make this last for as long as I could The first kiss and the first time That I felt connected to anything The weight of water the way you taught me To look past everything I have ever learned The final word in the final sentence You ever uttered to me was love We have got through so much worse than this before What's so different this time that you can't ignore You say it is much more than just my last mistake And we should spend some time apart For both our sakes The last girl and the last reason To make this last for as long as I could The first kiss and the first time that I felt connected to anything The weight of water the way you taught me To look past everything I have ever learned The final word in the final sentence