The lay-lie confusion is one of the tougher ones to suss out for grammarians, because of the tricky rules involved. It wasn't until this week that the improper use of lay and lie leaped out at me. If I lay here / If I just lay here / Would you lie with me and just forget the world? It's way past "Ain't No Sunshine" or "I Can't Get No Satisfaction." The chorus of "Chasing Cars":
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This is bigger than Gotye's goof (Should be "Now you're just somebody WHO I used to know) or Lady Gaga's groaner (Should be "You and I, we have a bad romance"). That's why I'm amazed that neither one of us caught one of the biggest grammar goofs in modern music. We'd hear what people said and correct them under our breath. We didn't need to talk about it.Īs we lived life together, we found that we each had a repulsion to bad grammar and typos. From that day forward, "Chasing Cars" was our song. Paula always loved the small things like they were big things. It was a good way, instead - she was sobbing because the gesture meant that much to her. My first instinct was that I screwed up and made her cry in a bad way. When I noticed we weren't driving, I checked on her, and saw she was in tears. I settled back and just listened for a while. Before she started driving, she popped it in and listened for a while. We were in her car, with her getting ready to drive. I gave it to her as casually as I'd give her some french fries out of a drive-through burger order. So I burned it onto a mix CD for her - we started dating in the days when burning CDs was easier than making a Spotify playlist.Ī playlist on a physical CD makes each song a what's-next mystery, meaning you can fill it will surprises and treats. I hadn't heard it yet, so after work one night I dug it up online, and kinda dug it. She had told me she liked the song, while we were dating.
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We just listened to it together in her car. It violates some tradition to the choosing of "our song" - such a title is bestowed upon the first song a couple dances to. I don't think Paula and I ever said, out loud, that "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol is our song.