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Come On

Description:

This is a song that Sara Quin wrote and that appeared first on the album Under Feet Like Ours and then later on the album This Business of Art. Sara sings the lead vocals and Tegan sings the background vocals.

Lyrics:


Under Feet Like Ours version:

You’ve got your lights turned so they can’t see you

The very best of what you’ve got to offer

Tell them what your hands were made for

Tell them who your mouth was made for

You’ve got your profits and your mathematicians

The vocal fuel of a generation

Tell me what my hands were made for

Tell me who my mouth was made for

And please don’t be mad at me

Well you’ll get what you ask for

So come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on

So very close to what you had expected

It makes it hard to keep my head up level

Tell me I’m what your hands were made for

Tell me I’m who your mouth was made for

And if you come down on me

Well you’ll get what you ask for

So come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on

And I, I want to get myself back

High, I want to get myself back 

Tonight, tonight, tonight

Tonight, tonight, tonight

And all of the things that you promised us that you’d be

Well now your hands are tired

But I was nice, yeah I was nice

But I, I’d give my life

For one night, one night, one night

Well I, I

Well I, I

I will not give up, I will not give up, I will not give up

What do you know? What do you know?

What do you know? Oh

What do you know? Oh

Come on, come on, come on {What do you know?}

Come on, come on, come on {What do you know?}

Come on, come on, come on {What do you know?}

Come on, come on, come on {What do you know?}


This Business of Art version:

You've got your lights turned so they can see you

The very best of what you've got to offer

Tell them what your hands were made for

Tell them who your mouth was made for

You got your prophets and your mathematicians

The vocal fuel of a generation

Tell me what my hands were made for

Tell me who my mouth was made for

And please don't be mad at me

You'll get what you ask for

Come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on

So very close to what you had expected

It makes it hard to keep my head uplevel

Tell me I'm what your hands were made for

Tell me I'm who your mouth was made for

And if you come down on me

Well you'll get what you ask for

Come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on

I, I want to get myself back

High, I want to get myself back

All of the things that you promised me that you'd be

Now your hands are tired

And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need

Now your hands are tired

Come on, come on, come on 

Come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on

Live Performances:

October 22, 2000 (Audio)

January 16, 2001

January 23, 2001 (Audio)

January 26, 2001 (Audio)

January 29, 2001

January 30, 2001

April 25, 2001 (Audio)

July 11, 2001 (Audio)

July 14, 2001 (Audio)

Trivia and Quotes:

“I wrote this song when I felt like I was having a really big change in my life. My change was just that I decided I just was not ever gonna get math. I just really needed to like, let it go. Like I still to this today, I could cry right now, I still to this freaking day, no, not freaking, this fucking day, I still have dreams about math class. Like I still, like I was tortured in math class, like I just was stupid. And I still have dreams where, in the middle of the dream, I realize I've been skipping out on math class and I’m like, I’m so dead at the end of this year. So I wrote this whole song based on that premise that I was like, so not a math person and everybody just needs to relax about it. And people always think it’s a song that I wrote for someone, like a tortured love song, but it’s really a tortured love song to math. I’m not joking.” - Sara in 2001

Credits:

UFLO version:


Sara and Tegan: Guitar

Aaron Burke: Drums

Jeremy Coates: Bass

Kristian Alexandrov: Programming, Piano, Percussion


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