Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. in United States independent music stores. The EP, though, was made available as a digital download on iTunes from 20 December 2005. It can also be purchased through Park Ave.'s website. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. is a five song EP by the alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released in late 2005. All songs are performed live and acoustic and are taken from a single performance at the Park Ave. store, then located in Winter Park. Lead singer Gary Lightbody notes after the first song that the band had never played some of
Chasing Cars was voted the number one "song of the noughties". Lead singer Gary Lightbody reportedly wrote the song when he became sober after a binge of white wine, in the garden of song producer Jacknife Lee's Kent cottage. The song has Lightbody singing a plain melody over sparse guitars, which has an ever-building crescendo. In an interview with "Rolling Stone", he said "It's the purest love song that I've ever written. There's no knife-in-the-back twist. When I read these lyrics back, I was like, 'Oh, that's weird.' All the other love songs I've written have a dark edge." The phrase "Chasing