Music Monday: Set The Fire To The Third Bar – Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright

Sam — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:21:55 +0000

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This is my favourite Snow Patrol song. I think it’s beautiful and brilliant, and it’s probably the most fitting song to describe a situation I find myself in. Maybe that’s why I love it so much? The addition of Martha Wainwright is wonderful because her voice is so lovely; it really helps to express the meaning of the song by the way it melts into Gary’s.

I find a map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms and state lines
The distance from A to where you 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 felt 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
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 it

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

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

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Music Monday: Set The Fire To The Third Bar – Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright