Snow Patrol - Set The Fire To The Third Bar

Gossard_Is_God

I heard this song for the first time today, and im seriously loving this song, so beautiful, never thought id like a snow patrol song, but this song to me is wow



Set The Fire To The Third Bar (with Martha Wainwright)

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from here to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger increases 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

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, 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

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

And miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLz6vI4qzeU

Housing Jim

Snow Patrol used to be great but with their last album they turned into one of the most boring bands on the planet. Every song sounds the same....it's just a monotonous drone, free of any energy at all.

I bet Keane fans love them now though

Mike_Muse_Rage

The old stuff is brilliant, check out Songs For Polarbears... VEEERY different to the rubbish they're producing now.

duggro

i had a major vent in the other snow patrol thread about their decision to become the "greys anatomy emotional moment band"

they are a bunch of sellout fannies


"im just a staaarfighter pilot.." now thats the stuff

soulsinging

Mike_Muse_Rage wrote:

The old stuff is brilliant, check out Songs For Polarbears... VEEERY different to the rubbish they're producing now.

i just bought that album the other day. it is mind-blowingly different from any of their more recent work. i love it. though, final straw is still my favorite. then probly when it's all over. the new album has some great moments (third bar being one), but it is a bit too heavy on the melancholy epics for my taste. it's my least fav. im glad ive never seen an episode of grey's anatomy. i think that would ruin the band for me.

GeorgeinNY

I like the Dr. Who version of that vid, and I agree with you, this is an incredible song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qPjvRzHm_g&mode=related&search=

vmfury

One of my very favorite songs by Snow Patrol. So pretty.

UKDave

I love that song, good call

pacifier

I was just thinking today that I am really enjoying snow petrol at the moment. Now I know some of you are calling them sell outs, but I wouldn't have a clue who they were if it weren't for their recent fame which I assume is largely due to being the background music to bad tv shows.

Now I have their new album and the only thing that puts me off is the same things Housing Jim and soulsinging have said. But I really enjoy it and to know now (thanks to you guys) that they have previous stuff that is even better then their new stuff makes me want to look into it, so their "selling out" worked on me. Why is it that everyone is always considered to be selling out when they release songs that appeal to more than a handful of people?

Ricsard

I prefer the Final Straw album to Eyes Open which is a collection of mostly dull or alike pop songs...