| Sunday, 13 May 2007 |
| Let's waste time |
I was on the way home from the 71 guys outing yesterday when the song 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol just kept ringing in my head. I think it had to do with watching the penultimate episode of the third season of Grey's Anatomy the night before.
After the amazing season 2 finale of Grey's (in which, they used this very same song in what was an ultimate Grey's moment) I will always associate this song with Grey's.
"If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"
"Testing 1-2-3" was a much anticipated return to the original format of Grey's. It was a much more satisfying episode compared to the previous 2 hour special. A typical episode of Grey's that's building up to the finale which airs next week.
We have interns taking their exams (or for the case of one particular intern, refusing to take the exam), attendings being cordial and friendly with one another, Callie issuing a challenge to Bailey, the Chief encountering his soon to be ex-wife in the hospital and the mysterious girl in the bar who offered to buy Derek a drink. And it didn't have a proper ending... paving the way for a continuation in next week's highly anticipated finale.
I'm sorta sad that Grey's is going to end again. I can't get used to the fact that there's no new episodes of Grey's every week for me to just immerse myself in. Add to the fact that Heroes is also ending soon, I've suddenly found myself devoid of new television episodes for at least another 2 months. Bleah.
"Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life"
So anyway, I was on the bus when the song just kept appearing in my head. I love the lyrics of the song - sure it can be really sappy sometimes, and like all hits that have been overplayed on the airwaves like 'You're Beautiful', 'Bad Day', 'Collide', it will eventually, get on your nerves.
But 'Chasing Cars' has an added advantage of having a climax. I love the way the music crescendos gradually throughout the course of the song. And when it comes to the last 4 stanzas... it just rips through the listener. There's something therapeutic about listening to the song at maximum volume on your speakers on headphones, and letting the climax hit you. So its not just a sappy ballad, its a sappy, emo rock ballad. And rock ballads are especially bitter sweet, which is why I say, give me a plateful of rock ballads over sappy pop ballads anytime.
"All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see"
I think I've said this before, and I will say it again.
I love the whole notion of lying down on the grass and just watching the clouds go by. Where two of us are just wasting time... interpreting the shapes of the clouds, wondering if there's anything bigger out there in the vast open sky.
I want to bring the girl I love star gazing. Where we'll just watch the stars, twinkling and blinking at us, as if they were trying to tell us secret about the universe, that only they and us are entitled to know.
Sometimes, the best thing to do is to waste time together. To just sit and chill. To just chase ideas and notions in our heads. Chasing cars that aren't going anywhere, round and round the blocks.
And then you stop and realise, that you are back at the starting point, with the one you love, and that everything else doesn't matter anymore.
"I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all"
I was watching 'Live from Abbey Road' on Wednesday and they had Snow Patrol. One of the songs they played was, of course, 'Chasing Cars'. It'll be quite amazing to listen to them perform it "Live", or for that matter, to attempt to sing it "Live".
But the thing about rock ballads is that they are actually very hard to perform to a 'Live' audience... you have to balance the pitch, the tone, the right accent, the right volume, and your mistakes are often magnified because you lack the actual loud background music you find on your recorded versions to moderate your mistakes.
"If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"
Somehow, I have a nagging feeling that Cristina and Burke won't make it to the altar, cause we will have a run away groom. Yes. I bet Cristina isn't the one to balk, but Burke is the one to balk instead.
I know, that'll be an ending I'll be talking about for a long long time.Labels: emo, fanboy, grey's anatomy, music |
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