Crack the Shutters

"Crack the Shutters"
7" vinyl
Single by Snow Patrol
from the album A Hundred Million Suns
B-side	"Cubicles"
Released	12 December 2008
Recorded	Grouse Lodge (Westmeath, Ireland) Hansa Tonstudio (Berlin, Germany)
Genre	Pop rock
Length	3:20
Label	Fiction, Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn, Tom Simpson
Producer(s)	Jacknife Lee
Snow Patrol singles chronology
"Take Back the City" (2008) "Crack the Shutters" (2008) "If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It" (2009)

"Crack the Shutters" is a song from Northern Irish/Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol's fifth album A Hundred Million Suns. It was released as the follow-up single to "Take Back the City" on different dates in December 2008 depending on the region, and was the second single taken from the album. The lyrics were written by Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Snow Patrol. The song was described by lyricist Lightbody as the purest love song he'd ever written. The single was received generally positively by music critics, the lyrics and vocals being praised in particular.

The single was quite successful in the charts, charting in the Top 20 in the Netherlands. Though it also entered the Top 30 in Sweden and Germany, it topped the Billboard Triple A chart. "Crack the Shutters" is also the name of a photography exhibition held by Bradley Quinn which primarily featured his photos taken at Snow Patrol concerts.