Sainthood is the only record of Tegan and Sara's that had to grow on me a bit before I could really start to appricate it. When I first downloaded this record I was unaware that there was a deluxe version with four other songs including: Sheets, Midnight, Wrists, and Light up. So I didn't get those songs until a few months after the record was released.
Needless to say this is why it took a while for it to grow on me, these songs make all of the other ones make sense, with out them the record feels imcomplete.
anyhow, I think that Brokenwrist's post was very insightful, I actually didn't think about Sara refereing to her parent's divorce with this song.
I think that there are two major themes in this record
1.) Sara's inner conflict with settling down with a companion, a compaion that wants more from Sara than she is possibly willing to give --- or in this case give up.
what? is it ten years now that they have been touring ? how many long lasting relationships can one have while traveling the world?
Tegan and Sara are extremley busy having a careers,obviously.
2.) Deciding their next move. I don't know about anybody else, but do you get the feeling that they are gettting ready to take a break? I don't think that they will ever stop wrting music I just think that they have sacrificed more than any of us could possibly grasp to live their dreams.
on the track someday it says,"The crowd's not worth this, and love's not worthless".
Sainthood is the only record of Tegan and Sara's that had to grow on me a bit before I could really start to appricate it. When I first downloaded this record I was unaware that there was a deluxe version with four other songs including: Sheets, Midnight, Wrists, and Light up. So I didn't get those songs until a few months after the record was released.
Needless to say this is why it took a while for it to grow on me, these songs make all of the other ones make sense, with out them the record feels imcomplete.
anyhow, I think that Brokenwrist's post was very insightful, I actually didn't think about Sara refereing to her parent's divorce with this song.
I think that there are two major themes in this record
1.) Sara's inner conflict with settling down with a companion, a compaion that wants more from Sara than she is possibly willing to give --- or in this case give up.
what? is it ten years now that they have been touring ? how many long lasting relationships can one have while traveling the world? Tegan and Sara are extremley busy having a careers,obviously.
2.) Deciding their next move. I don't know about anybody else, but do you get the feeling that they are gettting ready to take a break? I don't think that they will ever stop wrting music I just think that they have sacrificed more than any of us could possibly grasp to live their dreams.
on the track someday it says,"The crowd's not worth this, and love's not worthless".