Chasing Cars

Hi All,

I just bought the new album by Snow Patrol, Eyes Open, which contains one of my favorite songs ever, lyrically and musically. I didn't think they could ever top 'Run' (which I posted here when I started the blog), but they have. This song was used in a season finale, 'Grey's Anatomy' I believe. I know 'Alias' used a Snow Patrol song too, but I think that was an older one. Anyway. This lyric totally makes me dizzy inside. It's so beautiful, I can't stand it. Or maybe, I am having a hormone attack. haha The album is highly recommended. I put my favorite line in italics. (Since I am an HTML-challenged person.)

We’ll do it all, everything, on our own.
We don’t need anything or anyone.

If I lay here, if I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don’t quite know how to say how I feel.
Those three words are said too much.. they’re not enough.

If I lay here, if I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we’re told before we get too old, show me a garden that’s bursting into life.

Let’s waste time chasing cars around our heads.
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?

Forget what we’re told, before we get too old, show me a garden that’s bursting into life.

All that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes; they’re all I can see.

I don’t know where, confused about how as well,
Just know that these things will never change for us at all.

If I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?

'Chasing Cars'
(lyrics by Lightbody)

When I hear this song, I feel the person I want to be connected to forever. Who is he, you ask? That's for me to know, and for you all to understand when we have a wedding complete with a 5 hour reception themed "Hits of the 80's." We'll put Anakin and Padme figures on our wedding cake instead of the generic bride and groom, because, well, Star Wars Rules. That's not to say that he'll turn out to be Darth Vader, and accidentally kill me, the way Anakin kills Padme. But if he has Force Powers, that's definitely a plus. It'll start on a beach, just the two of us and a minister. Because even though I cannot swim (phobias are a pain in the ass), water is one of my favorite things in life, especially oceans.
We'd be dressed in white, both of us, and we'd have our families there, but kind of back from the beach a little bit. I can't think of many things more intimate than committing to be with someone, for life, so I'd want it to be intimate. My dad would walk me up there, wipe away the tears (Dad cries more than I do. I love sensitive men!), and let me go. My Feminist Nature would like to comment that I don't believe I 'belong' to my father, anymore than I'd 'belong' to my husband. But I do think that's a sweet tradition. After the vows, we'd stand hand-in-hand and greet our families, probably with sand in our feet. (I'm more likely to go barefoot. I'm not a hippie, but I like sand.)
When we reach the hall we've rented for the reception, they don't announce us as "Mr. and Mrs. Blankedy Blank." No offence to the guys, but I'll never be "Mrs. Insert Your Husband's name here." Feminist Nature rises up again and forbids me to ever be anybody but myself, even if it is just a name. But we'll be connected, though, for sure.
Later, after 5 hours of me and Bean showing everyone how to break it down, we'll retire to someplace very secluded, like someplace in the country and outdoors. Where I'll say: "Well, it's about God Damned time!" And we'll proceed to connect like birds to a flower. (Props to me for such a well-timed metaphor!)
The next day, I'll wake up and go, "Dear God! That was a lot of wine!" haha Did I mention? There HAS to be wine.


:)

Isn't that a nice picture?
I thought of that entire scenario last night. While listening to that song I just posted. I'm not one of these Charlottle York or Monica Geller types who had my wedding planned from childhood. The only thing I was planning in childhood was how to get grass stains off my trousers. haha And how to best use Luke to defeat Darth. :)

Wedding Blunders
1) Saying, "Hell, no, I DON'T!"
2) Toasting your brother's new bride Tina. But her name is Sherry.
3) Wearing a slutty dress. We're at a wedding, not a frat party.
4) People who honk the nose while crying. You know the ones I mean.
5) Bringing a shotgun. I won't be pregnant, you fools!

Have a great day, All!