Interview from 2007:

Tegan: It was the last song that I wrote, that I submitted for this record and actually, initially, like no one really liked it all that much but I think it grew on all of us. And for me, I really like this song, cause I think that it was the end of this like sort of emotional journey I had gone on. I was like, y’know, basically I had fallen in love with someone and was trying to woo them. And I finally came down to like the fact that I was like “Just tell me if you want me. And if you don’t, then get away from me.”

Interviewer: Yeah, what are the lyrics in the chorus?

Tegan: All I need to know is that you’re not mine.

Interviewer: Yeah what…

Tegan: Well I’d been having like a very like passive aggressive sort of like, you know like… I was having like an emotional relationship but we never really talked about how we felt about each other, we’d talk like hours and hours and hours everyday and like-

Sara: They didn’t hit that shit.

Tegan: Yeah I don’t think you can say “shit” on CBC radio, can you?

Sara: Can’t you bleep it out or whatever.

Interviewer: I think you can now.

Tegan: Yeah? Yeah basically we never hooked up. And we would like, we were basically dating and we talked hours and hours everyday and, and then I finally was like “What is going on between us?” you know, and I had written all these like pining, “come and get me”, “save me from myself”, “love me, why don’t you love me” songs and finally I just was like sent this song to her and was like “what the fuck?”

Interviewer: You sent the song to this person?

Tegan: Yeah I sent all the songs to this person. I mean I was making it very clear that I was attempting to woo them through music because I had a hard time talking about my feelings in general conversation and so I would send each song as I went along and you know when would have- when we had a rough patch, I sent Call It Off and you know like each song sort of like represented a sort of chapter in the journey that we were taking together, and like, and then “Hop A Plane” was the last song and it was sort of like my way of saying like “if this isn’t happening, you just need to let me know”. Y’know, which, that did not happen, so.

Interviewer: And so how did it end?

Tegan: I mean it’s over, I mean never happened.

Sara: They didn’t hit that shit.

Tegan: I didn’t- I didn’t- I didn’t- I didn’t get to-

Sara: Say it, it’s okay, it’s part of the therapy.

Tegan: It really wasn’t about “hitting that shit” I really wanted to like, marry the person. I was in a very desperate state.

Sara: You wanted to hit that shit and get married.

Tegan: Yeah.

Interviewer: Well it’s created art.

Tegan: I got rejected. I’d never been rejected before. This is my rejection record.

Interviewer: Okay, well it’s a great song.

Tegan: Thank you.