21 Meanings
Add Yours
Share
Q&A

Just Say Yes Lyrics

I'm running out of ways to make you see
I want you to stay here beside me
I won't be ok and I won't pretend I am
So just tell me today and take my hand
Please take my hand
Please take my hand

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back
It's not a test, nor a trick of the mind
Only love

It's so simple and you know it is
You know it is, yeah
We can't be to and fro like this
All our lives
You're the only way to me
The path is clear
What do I have to say to you
For Gods sake, dear
For Gods sake, dear
For Gods sake, dear
For Gods sake, dear
For Gods sake, dear

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back
It's not a test, nor a trick of the mind
Only love

Just say yes, coz Im aching and I know you are too
For the touch of your warm skin
As I breathe you in

I can feel your heart beat through my shirt
This was all I wanted, all I want
Its all I want
Its all I want
Its all I want
Its all I want

Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back
It's not a test, nor a trick of the mind
Only love

Just say yes, coz Im aching and I know you are too
For the touch of your warm skin
As I breathe you in
Questions and Answers

Ask specific questions and get answers to unlock more indepth meanings & facts.

21 Meanings

Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

Straightforward and relatable song. It might be taken very literally as a marriage proposal, but looking from a different angle, it could be about deciding whether or not to even fall in love.

For somebody who has been hurt, it's very hard to yield to love at all. There's so much to hold you back from falling again, from opening yourself to somebody, from just saying yes because then you become very vulnerable and intimate.

But this guy, he's so in love with the girl. He is assuring her that it will be worth it, whatever pain will inevitably come. It's a promise that his love is real, that she should just throw away her precautions and inhibitions, all the things she guards herself with, protects her heart with. It's frustrating to him, because he just wants her so much.

Snow Patrol is so good at sensual imagery. "Im aching and I know you are too/ For the touch of your warm skin/ As I breathe you in." Often it is in moments of physical closeness that we surrender our hearts.

It's very hard to find somebody who will work so hard to beat down those walls. That's what makes the song so sweet.

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

This is my favorite so far of Snow Patrol's. It's everything that I feel for someone-but the roles aree kinda reversed...

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

Because sometimes the answer is better if it is "no".

It's a beautiful song isn't it? :)

Not Valid
Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

I just adore this song, it's so lovely. The video was amazing as well.

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

I don't think its a marriage proposal. "just for the touch of your warm skin"- he just wants to be close to her, be in a relationship with her, have her hand to hold. I could be wrong, but that's what I get. Lovely song.

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

Dude... £50?? where are you getting this from? the 2 Cd version is only £8.95 on play.com thats if you are talking about their new compilation cd "Up to now", which i assume you are. I can't wait for it :)

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

Dude... £50?? where are you getting this from? the 2 Cd version is only £8.95 on play.com thats if you are talking about their new compilation cd "Up to now", which i assume you are. I can't wait for it :)

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

only £5.00 in sainsburys now :)just thought id let folk know.

.....and this is one of my favorites, i think its either about marriage or a commitment to a relationship.....Just say yes, just say there's nothing holding you back It's not a test, nor a trick of the mind Only love

maybe im wrong? wouldn't be the first time :)

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

£1 if you rent it from your local library...x ;)

Cover art for Just Say Yes lyrics by Snow Patrol

They'll release this on the compilation I think. Gary wrote this, and Nicole Scherzinger is using it for her debut solo album, buts its currently shelved. Glad they recorded themselves!

As for the lyrics, its probably about two lovers who keep fighting and drifting apart, and Gary is trying to woo her back using all the Gary-isms.

Quite a bit like "Chasing Cars" I'd say, it must've recorded in that era, cuz her album was initially due in 2007.