Wake Up Exhausted Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ShameOnShames 

Cover art for Wake Up Exhausted lyrics by Tegan and Sara

I feel like there was an intervening force in their relationship, something the narrator had control over. "We're alone and we're happy" making it more apparent that it was something outside of them, and then later in the song "I hate them". Beyond that, she's feeling some weight on her sPossiblyhoulders, guilt perhaps. In that she can't stand up straight. She feels tremendous remorse for her actions because it is the other that makees the city tolerable. In that same stanza we see the wedge that was driven between them "we're strangers, we're not friends." Indescretion would also warrent the hatred felt by the significant other and the inability to stop thinking about the narrator.

It's a sad song. Because so often, even without some indescretion, this is the way relationships end up.