回复：【T&S】Song Meanings

Tegan on “Speak Slow”

I don’t remember writing that song, I’m not sure I did. So I think I stole it from
somebody else, so I have nothing to say about it except that I don’t remember writing it.
Isn’t that the weirdest thing? Maybe you don’t think that’s weird, but I think it’s really
weird. I swear to god. I don’t remember where I wrote it or what I wrote it about,
but I mean, when I listen to it, I can relate to it. I wrote my portion of the record
really quickly, so it’s just a blur. I demo everything at home and I was looking through
my old files looking for the actual demo version of it and I couldn’t even find it.
But I have it on CD, I just don’t even have a date of when exactly I wrote it.
But I really enjoy playing it, it’s a fun song, and it’s kinda supposed to be cheeky,
in my interpretation of it anyway. I must have been thinking, wow, this is cheeky,
and that’s why I wrote it. I remember writing the bridge though.
We were in preproduction and Sara thought the song was too repetitive so
I wrote the bridge to break it up. I remember writing that! I think a big theme in
our lives is that you create a life and a stable environment and then you pack up and
leave it. And then you’re just gone and you have to sorta roll with it and try to keep
your environment safe and secure and stable and it’s hard to do sometimes.
Sometimes you get bullheaded and stubborn and self-sabotage and that sort of stuff.
That’s definitely some of the themes I feel when I’m playing that song but god knows.
You’ll have to ask Tegan the next time she appears.

Tegan on Sara’s “We Didn’t Do It”

That’s a tough one. I’m not sure what the hell Sara was writing it about. I know that when
I heard it I was very excited. But I think there’s some things we carried over from the last
record. The line on “We Didn’t Do It,” “get in my car,” and I know in “Not Tonight”
[from If It Was You] she says, “In the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere,”
like there’s themes she carried over from the last record which I think is really cool.
We both repeated a few lines from the lyrics of the old record on this new one.
I love the instrumentation, I love the arrangement, and the production of that song,
it’s just kinda like a weird song. I appreciate its originality. Go Sara. Go team.

Tegan on “Fix You Up”

I guess there was lots of time that for Sara and I, being sisters and being family and
being in a band for five years, it can be exhausting and at times I felt like sort of
an unknown. With Sara moving to Montreal and talking a lot about going back to school,
it was tough. There were times when I was writing this record where I was pretty sure that
was it. You know, like I was writing my own record and Sara was gonna be done and
wasn’t contributing and wasn’t returning my calls or hadn’t sent me new music.
I thought, jeez, this is it, she’s gonna quit and I’m gonna be all on my own.
And there’s something about that song; I guess I was trying to get that feeling like
you sort of have to enjoy what you have and you have to put in a hundred percent and
give everything you have or really there’s nothing to give because if you’re being a big
whiny bag all the time then that’s all you’ll be.

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