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Downtown

Description:

This is a song that Sara Quin wrote and that appeared on the album So Jealous. Sara sings the lead vocals and the background vocals.

Lyrics:

If you're gonna get up, you might as well get up with me

If you're going downtown, I might as well be on your way

And I sit all night, I sit still all night

I won't tell one soul, I won't tell one soul

I just can't get it straight you see and oh well

That distraction inside of me, oh well

I just can't get it straight you see and oh well

Is fine by you, I am fine by you

I won't tell one soul, I won't tell one soul

If you're going downtown, take me with you, I don't care

If I'm gonna get up, I'll just admit it, I only get up for you

If I'm gonna get up, I'll just admit it, I only get up for you

And I sit all night, I sit still all night

I won't tell one soul, I won't tell one soul 

If you're going downtown, if you're going downtown

Yeah we can, yeah we can

If you're going downtown, if you're going downtown

Yeah we can, yeah we can

If you're going downtown, if you're going downtown

Yeah we can, yeah we can

And I sit all night (If you're going downtown)

I sit still all night (If you're going downtown)

I won't tell one soul (If you're going downtown)

I won't tell one soul

Live Performances:

September 20, 2004 (Audio)

September 29, 2004 (Audio)

October 17, 2004 (Audio)

November 5, 2004 (Audio)

November 11, 2004

November 13, 2004 (Audio)

February 16, 2005

February 19, 2005 (Audio)

March 24, 2005 (Video)

March 25, 2005 (Audio 1, Audio 2)

April 24, 2005 (Audio)

June 22, 2005 (Video)

June 23, 2005 (Audio)

June 26, 2005 (Video 1, Video 2)

July 14, 2005

July 16, 2005 (Audio)

July 22, 2005

August 1, 2005 (Audio)

August 2, 2005 (Audio)

August 3, 2005 (Audio)

September 5, 2005 (Audio)

October 9, 2005 (Audio)

October 14, 2005 (Audio)

October 15, 2005

Trivia and Quotes:

“That's a Sara song and, again, almost didn't make it on the record. Our manager said he was gonna quit working with our project if we didn't put Where Does The Good Go and Downtown on the record. We demoed it when we demoed a few songs to send to the record company. When we were ready to start doing the record, it turned out identical to the demo and we just didn't feel like we could change it enough, and so we were really struggling with the actual like open guitar sounds and stuff. So that was the song that almost didn't make it, but it's definitely a favorite for me when we play it live. Sara moved to Montreal about six months into our last record. She went there, didn't know anybody there, it was like middle of winter, minus gazillion, and she's stuck in this big old apartment with no furniture and she sent me all these really sad pictures of just like her bed on the floor and her computer. And she wrote songs like Downtown when she first moved there. She had a crush on someone and they were in another relationship and she said she kinda felt like a stalker when she'd see them out and about. I know that that song and Walking With A Ghost were sorta themed around the idea of wanting to be with somebody you couldn't be with. I can just picture her sitting in her big open window staring out at the ice and snow and wishing that person was there. And I don't know, it makes me depressed. Actually, most of her songs on the record can make me feel depressed.” - Tegan in 2005

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