Tegan and Sara

Divided

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Go downtown to catch the early movie
The shows are cheaper there and they don't mind if you put your feet up
She's out on the highway
She's got a homemade sign it says
"Go ahead and tell me what my future looks like"
Don't want to live my life like a story
Thinkin I could've been something
Don't run along side and control me
Just film away and let me be
At ease, I feel fine
I'll move on, I'll go on
There's something so divided
Don't worry about me I'll be fine
Don't live your life for me or for anyone
Live your life as if you're one
Live your life as if you're one
And find quiet, it's awful quiet
How can you be mad we just got started?
I want to shave my head and lie in bed all day long
How can you be mad we just got started?
Live your life as if you're one
At ease, I feel fine
I'll move on, I'll go on
Don't want to live my life as a movie
Always thinkin I could've been something
Live your life as if you're one
Find quiet it's awful quiet

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killingjuliet On Dec 19, 2001

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by hypractv

16y ago

This is the time where the two of them really didn't get along. Sara and Tegan were just out of high school and they had just months before decided to not go to university and be in a band together. Then Sara got into a relationship and was distracted from being in the band and everything else in her life. She had told her mom later that she would be be in the band with Tegan for a little while because Tegan didn't have much going on for her(as told by tegan's point of view). And their mother stuck them into therapy in which they were soon after removed from therapy for harassing the therapist. Somewhere in this time period Tegan wrote this song for Sara.

During the live shows she sings "The shows are cheaper they don't mind when I put my feet up / Sara's out on the highway" and it ends with the fist verse. The last line they sing in the live version is "Go ahead and tell me what my future looks like"

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by krsriotgrrrl12

18y ago

Whiteiron had it right. Tegan wrote it when her and Sara weren't getting along at all, back when they were younger.

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by cherryXkiss

24y ago

i lve this song so much. thisis one of my favorite groups. i love their voices and heir lyrics.

but its "go ahead try to figure out what my future looks like"

thats what i have :)

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by fuzzy_bunny

24y ago

this is probly one of my favourite T&S songs. i just really like the flow of the song.

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by fuzzy_bunny

24y ago

this is probly one of my favourite T&S songs. i just really like the flow of the song.

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by WhiteIron

23y ago

Once upon a time, T&S couldn't stand one another. Tegan got to spend a week apart from Sara by staying at a friends' house. She felt it was liberating, and it inspired her to write this song about Sara. And they lived happily ever after, the end.

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by 1832

22y ago

"I wanna shave my head and lie in bed all day long..."

Oh, I know the feeling. This songs speaks to me in so many ways.

I also like: "Yeah, talk like that so when you're 18 you can hear what a brat you were." Haha!

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by LillySchull

21y ago

It is all about the good and bad of being a twin. Wanting to be your own person, but knowing you can't be.

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by katerxdaisy

21y ago

Yeah, fully, l was at the T&S show with my girlie on Feb 16th and before they played it it was like, YEAH I WROTE THIS FOR MY SISTER and the audience was like AWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

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by thatpartydress

20y ago

isn't this about therapy/counseling, too? "how can you be mad, we just got started."

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