“This is another song like I was saying earlier that when Sara wrote I Bet It Stung, she wrote several different songs in a series. There was Under Your Arm and Get It While You Can, and I Can't Take It was right at the end. So that's another song that got on that was from that series of songs she wrote. When we were doing interviews for our bio, I described hearing that song for the first time to be like Sara was standing on my chest. I just felt really sad, and that was having heard all the other songs in order leading up to that one. I know that when Sara was writing these songs it was during the end of her relationship and it was someone she'd been friends with for almost ten years and been with for four years. It was just the psyche of it, when you've known someone for half your life, literally, and then have to leave them, and not necessarily because you want to but just because it's the right thing to do, and it's just not healthy and you're not good anymore, there's no growth and you have to have growth. And when I hear that song, the idea of that all happening just makes me sick to my stomach a little bit. But it's in an enjoyable way.” - Tegan in 2005

“I was terribly afraid to leave Vancouver and move to a new city, but once I had arrived I knew it had been the right choice. I would cry a lot at night, sometimes to my mom, or just alone. I had ordered a bed and mattress but pieces of the frame were an incorrect size and so I kept the mattress on the floor for the first week. I didn’t have window coverings and would wake up with the sunrise. I felt like I had escaped from Vancouver, but also from a number of complicated relationships. There was tremendous guilt associated with that feeling. This song served as a reminder that I had no choice but to move.” - Sara in the So Jealous X book