Like O, Like H Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ImpliedLove 

Cover art for Like O, Like H lyrics by Tegan and Sara

I think this about the singer warning her mother to help her as a child and teenager because she's going to develop issues that she won't be able to handle on her own. It's the gut feeling.

It's ironic that the chorus line is "sugar spell it out" as in "Just say what you mean" since the song is so cryptic

A friend of mine when to a Tegan & Sara concert and she told me that before Sara played this song she said it was about her experimentation with drugs and how her mother didn't know about it but Sara knew she was getting out of control, so that explains the "SOS to my mother take the hinges off the door" line; like she wanted her mother to help her and see what she was doing. "Make a map of what you see direct pain effectively" is her taking out pain in drugs,. I love this song, It's so mysterious a nd...