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According to an interview with The Sunday Times, Gary Lightbody wrote this song after he cheated on his girlfriend.
I’d just cheated on my girlfriend — ex-girlfriend, obviously — I was going home and I just started writing it.
Lightbody is reflecting upon the mistakes he’s done and regretting the...
[Verse 1]
This could be the very minute
I'm aware I'm alive
All these places feel like home
With a name I'd never chosen
I can make my first steps
As a child of twenty-five
[Chorus]
This is the straw, final straw in the
Roof of my mouth as I lie to you
Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it at the time
[Verse 2]
You're the only thing that I love
Scares me more every day
On my knees I think clearer
Goodness knows I saw it coming
Or at least I'll claim I did
But in truth, I'm lost for words
[Chorus]
What have I done? It's too late for that
What have I become? Truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask
[Outro]
This time
Chocolate was written by Gary Lightbody & Snow Patrol.
Chocolate was produced by Jacknife Lee.
Snow Patrol released Chocolate on Mon Apr 12 2004.
According to Gary Lightbody in 2013:
‘Chocolate’ seems like a bouncy, joyful, jubilant kind of song. Big chorus. It was actually written on the ferry home. I used to live in Glasgow – Dundee and then Glasgow – and I would come home on the ferry.
I guess the jubilance masks the darker side to the l...