Chasing Cars

This tender love song about getting by with just you and your beloved is a band composition with lyrics by lead singer Gary Lightbody, who called it "the most pure and open love song I've ever written."

This was used in the TV shows One Tree Hill and Grey's Anatomy, two programs with a penchant for reflective tunes that can ramp up the emotional output of a scene. This exposure was a huge boost to the band in America, where they were still unknown.

Frontman Gary Lightbody wrote this in the garden of producer Garret "Jacknive" Lee's cottage one night in "a blur of red wine and Percocet." He says he wrote about 10 songs that night, and when he looked at them the next day nine of them were terrible, but "Chasing Cars" stood out like "a diamond in the s--t."