![]() ![]() ![]() Tegan: Yeah? Yeah basically we never hooked up. Sara: Can’t you bleep it out or whatever. Tegan: Yeah I don’t think you can say “shit” on CBC radio, can you? Tegan: Well we’d been having a very like passive-agressive sort of you know like… I was having an emotional relationship but we never really talked about how we felt about each other, we’d talk like hours and hours and hours everyday and like… Tegan: All I need to know is that you’re not mine. Interviewer: Yeah, what are the lyrics in the chorus? And if you don’t, then get away from me.” And it finally came down to the fact that like. It was like, basically I had fallen in love with someone and was trying to woo them. And for me, I really like this song, cause it was the end of this like sort of emotional journey I had gone on. It was the last song that I wrote, that I submitted for this record and actually, initially, no one really liked it all that much but I think it grew on all of us. And there will come a point where our relationship will become a distant thing, but I will come back.” But (paraphrasing) “I’m not going to leave you and I’m not going to cheat. She’s going to have to get emotionally addicted and obsessive about somebody. I know in terms of Sara’s situation, I don’t think she was saying, “I want to leave this person that I’ve been with for four years who is everything I’ve ever wanted.” From the very beginning, and this is something that Sara talks about, she admitted to her partner that she is going to, at some point, emotionally connect to someone, and it’s almost going to be a necessity. You don’t necessarily want to leave your comfortable, amazing life that you’ve set up. You get to a point where you are feeling very comfortable and familiar with your situation and your partner and the day comes when you meet someone who knocks you off your feet. I think as women who are dating women - not that I’ve only experienced that with women, I think that when I was dating men I felt the same way - it’s difficult. And I don’t find that music helps me actually get them out of me or stop doing the circle, so I just start singing about it… And I see that circle imagery - that idea of walking in circles - as how my songs process inside of me. ‘Taken’ was the word my roommate and I used to explain when you were in a relationship but not… I feel very much like I’m a high-anxiety, high-stress, high-worry kind of person, and I’ve really been battling that for the last few years. The song is very much this bipolar conversation with myself about being taken. You create this person that you’re going to be, and then it all falls apart. Once you get through the first three or four months, that’s when it all comes out. Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me it affects no one yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster. You fall in love with someone, you make sacrifices and you do things so you can stay together. I was thinking about how funny it is that my life seems so simple and natural, what everyone does in life. I didn’t want to get married and wasn’t getting married but it felt so formal, like a wedding. So we got up really early and went to this notary in Old Montreal. As part of the application process you have to go in and basically declare your common law status before notary. ![]() The personal experience was that my girlfriend and I are common law, but she’s an American and we were doing a permanent residency application for her to stay in Canada. ![]()
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