My Number
Description:
This is a song that Tegan Quin wrote and that appeared on the album This Business of Art. Tegan sings the lead vocals and Sara sings the background vocals. Sara also sings lead vocals on the second verse.
Lyrics:
Shower’s pounding out a new beat
I trade my old shoes for new feet
I grab a new seat, I don’t like the one I got
Fabric’s wearing through and it’s wearing me out
You’re wearing me down
Watching old baseball games and low budget telethons
Ain’t like watching you yourself, when you yourself is on
Got time to wonder to waste and to whine
But when it comes to you it seems like I just can’t
Find time {Find the time}
So watch your head and then watch the ground
It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown
It’s a silly time to learn to swim on the way down
If I gave you my number, would it still be the same?
If I, if I saved you from drowning
Promise me you’ll never go away
Oh, promise me you’ll always stay
Closed down the last local zoo
I’m gonna win the endless war
Over who kills the last koala bear
And who in death will love him more and I
He grabs me by the hand, drags me to the shore and says
Maybe you don’t love me, but you’ll grow to love me even more
And I, well I’m not surprised
If I gave you my number, would it still be the same?
If I, if I saved you from drowning
Promise me you’ll never go away
Oh, promise me you’ll always stay
Shower’s pounding out a new beat
I trade my old shoes for new feet
I grab a new seat, I don’t like the one I got
My fabric’s wearing through and it’s wearing me out
You’re wearing me down, oh, oh
You’re wearing me down, oh, oh
So watch your head baby and watch the ground
It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown
It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown
If I gave you my number, would it still be the same?
If I, if I saved you from drowning
Promise me you’ll never go away
Oh if I, if I gave you my number, would it still be the same?
If I, if I saved you from drowning
Promise me you’ll never go away
Oh, promise me you’ll always stay
Promise me you’ll always stay
Live Performances:
October 7, 1999
August 21, 2000 (Live & Direct Volume 3)
August 22, 2000
August 29, 2000
September 2, 2000
September 14, 2000
October 21, 2000
October 22, 2000
October 23, 2000
October 24, 2000
January 16, 2001
January 23, 2001
January 26, 2001
January 27, 2001
January 29, 2001
January 30, 2001
March 9, 2001
April 25, 2001
May 6, 2001
May 16, 2001
May 22, 2001
July 11, 2001
July 14, 2001
July 26, 2001
July 29, 2001
August 14, 2001
August 18, 2001
August 25, 2001
August 7, 2002
September 16, 2002
September 17, 2002
September 19, 2002
September 24, 2002
September 27, 2002
October 1, 2002
October 4, 2002
October 8, 2002
November 7, 2002
November 8, 2002
November 16, 2002
November 17, 2002
November 18, 2002
November 20, 2002
November 25, 2002
January 18, 2003
March 2, 2003
March 3, 2003
March 4, 2003
March 7, 2003
March 10, 2003
March 18, 2003
July 5, 2003
August 21, 2003
July 13, 2005
July 14, 2005
July 16, 2005
July 22, 2005
August 1, 2005
August 2, 2005
August 3, 2005
October 9, 2005
October 15, 2005
October 3, 2007
October 13, 2007
November 1, 2007
January 8, 2010
January 13, 2010
January 14, 2010
January 18, 2010
January 20, 2010
January 22, 2010
January 23, 2010
January 25, 2010
February 12, 2010
February 13, 2010
February 15, 2010
February 16, 2010
February 18, 2010
February 20, 2010
February 20, 2013
February 22, 2013
February 23, 2013
February 24, 2013
February 26, 2013
March 4, 2013
March 6, 2013
March 7, 2013
March 9, 2013
March 10, 2013
March 11, 2013
March 15, 2013
April 30, 2013
May 2, 2013
May 9, 2013
May 13, 2013
June 12, 2013
June 20, 2013
June 24, 2013
June 25, 2013
June 24, 2014
July 14, 2014
Trivia and Quotes:
In live performances of the song, Tegan often changed the lyric “win the endless war” to “end the endless war” and also changed “love him more” to “love me more.” She also sometimes changed the “He” in the song to “Keanu” because the song appeared in the soundtrack for the movie Sweet November, which had Keanu Reeves in it.
“I remember ‘My number’ was written about my best friend, who, he like had this intense emotional relationship with me and then he fell in love with me. It was so hard for me, I felt so sad for the loss, and the loss was so gigantic because I was in the midst in a kind of emotional love affair with a friend of his who was a female. The triangle between us was so sad and so hard, and I put a ‘he’ in the song and I hate playing the song now because it’s so hard to explain that to people. Where as if I has just written the song and taken that one word out, the song would make universal sense to everyone ... so I stopped saying he, and for years started saying ‘Keanu’ because ‘My number’ was in the movie he was in! So I was all like, ‘this song is for Keanu’.” - Tegan in 2008