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Are You Ten Years Ago Lyrics
Taken I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I collapse
I might stay out longer than
I left the light on for you then
If you show you show
When I feel like this, when I get so into myself
I lose track of where I'm going then, lose track of how to get going again
Feel myself slowing down
Feel myself turning around
Is this taken?
When I feel like this, when I get so sick of myself
Where are you going then, without me
And not knowing then, that we're slowing down
You've got to turn right around
And tell me that I'm taken then
Tell me if I'm yours
You collapse
The pressure of this life is so you can't be held accountable
If you go you go
When you act like this, when you get so sick of yourself
The whole world falls away, and since
I feel like I have only missed
The feeling that I'm here again
The feeling that I'm clear again
I'm not taken
When you act like this, when you get so into yourself
I lose sight of common goals and letting go
So I can be all alone
Feel myself going slow, feel myself letting go
Not taken, not feeling like I'm yours
Taken I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I collapse
This life looks like a sentence, though a constant game of falling short
If you know you know
When I feel like this, when I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect
Isn't right for me, I never fight to see if coming clean would get to me
I feel myself holding back, I feel the pressure, it's finally back, I'm taken
When you felt like this, when you saw it all come crashing down
Subtle but not underground, I was there
I saw the signs I saw unfair and so I wrote to you through other means
I let myself finally feel taken
Like I was yours
I'm up and doing circles
I collapse
I left the light on for you then
If you show you show
When I feel like this, when I get so into myself
I lose track of where I'm going then, lose track of how to get going again
Feel myself slowing down
Feel myself turning around
Is this taken?
Where are you going then, without me
And not knowing then, that we're slowing down
You've got to turn right around
And tell me that I'm taken then
Tell me if I'm yours
The pressure of this life is so you can't be held accountable
If you go you go
The whole world falls away, and since
I feel like I have only missed
The feeling that I'm here again
The feeling that I'm clear again
I'm not taken
I lose sight of common goals and letting go
So I can be all alone
Feel myself going slow, feel myself letting go
Taken I am yours
I'm up and doing circles
I collapse
This life looks like a sentence, though a constant game of falling short
When I feel like this, when I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect
Isn't right for me, I never fight to see if coming clean would get to me
When you felt like this, when you saw it all come crashing down
Subtle but not underground, I was there
I saw the signs I saw unfair and so I wrote to you through other means
I let myself finally feel taken
Like I was yours
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This song states all the reasons why an in-between relationship on/off again should end. I'm using it as my anthem right now. It fits everything I feel and what is happening. I love Tegan and Sara.
I'm like a couple of people here, I really didn't like this song or "Like O, Like H" for the longest time. I have to say they grew on me. I adore this album. I think it's one that you have to listen to a lot to understand completely. I also think you have to listen to it from start to finish, well that's what happens when I go to listen to a single track anyway... :-D
In their first Seattle concert this month, Tegan introduced this song by saying "I wrote this song when I was 25, so by 'Are you ten years ago?' I was asking myself, 'Are you 15?'" So I gather part of it is the frustration of immaturity in the relationship.
this song gives me the chills everytime i hear it for the longet time i thought it was called "are you ten years old?" haha.
i don't understand this song at alll. :\
wannabesluts, I felt the same way at first. But after listening to it 50,000 times (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating), it really grew on me. It's kind of haunting, and it's fast-paced, and it just really grows on you. Give it another shot.
Something that never grew onto me, though, was "Like O, Like h". Just never got into it. Oh well..
I think that the meaning to them is probably an on and off relationship. But to me It's just being in a relationship in general. I keep talking with alot of girls and they keep trying to get me to trust them but I'm bad with the relationship thing. They feed me with compliments until I feel like I'm theirs and then because neither of us technically asked each other out I'm always right about to ask them out when they start dating someone they've been talking to for about a week if that. I keep going on circles because I keep doing the same thing with different women. I keep going back and forth with trying to better myself as a person and go after everything I want and trying to love someone but all of them are just looking to be saved and I want someone who is whole by themselves, but I feel so messed up because I seem to be the only one who won't give in to desperation and let who am I go just so I won't be alone. I know they didn't mean it in the way that it fits me, but I love this song because it fits me perfectly.
What an awesome song
maybe an on and off relationship where even through the moments of fighting and being "off again" you're still emotionally taken although you feel like you're alone and whanot... "I'm taken I am yours, I'm up and doing circles." "Not taken, not feeling like I'm yours..."
doing circles was waiting and contemplating the entire situation but then collapsing is just letting your guard down and being commited
Really great song. The music reminds me of Malcolm Middleton.
This is my favourite song on the new album... well, one of the many favourites :P I can totally relate to the lyrics, although it means something new to me each time I listen to it.