Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol is an unassuming little ballad from the later aughts, and for me it’s a comfortable, beautiful song about knowing you’ve found the one, again. I met my Woof and he was wounded; fragments of his heart were missing and it was so hard not to fall for someone knowing how empty and broken his heart was. I saw who he was the instant we met. I saw the love and joy and compassion, and looking into the eyes that yearned for his children, it was obvious this was a man who was on the brink of hopelessness. I helped bring him back to life, and I knew someday those missing pieces of his heart would be found; and they were. Thing is, he helped bring me back to life too. I was deafened by so many things that I had built barriers and began to shut down, but helping him helped me. This song makes me think of that time in both our lives, discovering we can be happy again, if we just hang on to hope, and to each other. We spoke about whether or not we had “a song” last year while planning our wedding. If I had to choose one, it would have been this. (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?)
From the historical writing archive. Original date: December 4, 2015. Recovered from local source material; editorial review is still in progress.
