The Planets Bend Between Us

"The Planets Bend Between Us"
Single by Snow Patrol
from the album A Hundred Million Suns
B-side	"Reading Heaney to Me"
Released	24 May 2009
Recorded	Grouse Lodge (Westmeath, Ireland) Hansa Tonstudio (Berlin, Germany)
Genre	Alternative rock, soft rock
Length	4:18 (album version) 4:01 (single version)
Label	Fiction/Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn and Tom Simpson
Producer(s)	Jacknife Lee
Snow Patrol singles chronology
"If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It" (2009) "The Planets Bend Between Us" (2009) "Just Say Yes" (2009)

"The Planets Bend Between Us" (or "The Planets Bend Between Us (For You)") is a song from alternative rock band Snow Patrol's fifth album A Hundred Million Suns. It was released as the follow-up single to "If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It" on 24 May 2009. It was the fourth single taken from the album. The lyrics were written by Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Snow Patrol. The song is about Lightbody's beach house in Belfast. The single featured a re-working of the album version and was released as a digital download only. It was later included on the band's 2009 compilation album Up to Now.

The song was received quite positively by music critics upon the album release, with one critic comparing it to "Chasing Cars". However, commercial reaction to the single was generally negative. The single was a commercial failure, failing to chart in every country barring the Tipparade Chart in the Netherlands.