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Terrible Storm

Description:

This is a song that Sara Quin wrote and that appeared on the album If It Was You. Sara sings the lead vocals and Tegan sings the background vocals.

Lyrics:

There was a terrible storm and you were wearing all our coats

In the back of this car I feel like I have travelled nowhere

We buried in the snow I kept warm inside of your clothes

You swore that nothing would ever change the way we were right then

It was a colder night, bought a hotel I

I thought you would never find another love again

But you haven’t missed a thing

No you haven’t missed a thing

No you haven’t missed a thing

No you haven’t missed a thing

There was a terrible storm and you were wearing all our coats

In the back of this car I feel like I have travelled nowhere

We buried in the snow I kept warm inside of your clothes

You swore that nothing would ever change the way we were right then

It was a colder night, bought a hotel I

I thought you would never find another love again

But you haven’t missed a thing

No you haven’t missed a thing

No you haven’t missed a thing

No you haven’t missed a thing

Live Performances:

YouTube playlist


August 7, 2002

August 8, 2002

August 22, 2002

September 16, 2002

September 17, 2002

September 19, 2002

September 24, 2002

September 26, 2002 (Audio)

September 27, 2002 (Audio)

September 28, 2002 (Audio)

October 1, 2002 (Audio)

October 14, 2002

November 7, 2002

November 8, 2002 (Audio)

November 12, 2002

November 16, 2002

November 17, 2002

November 18, 2002

November 20, 2002 (Audio)

February 21, 2003 (Audio)

February 25, 2003

March 3, 2003 (Audio)

March 4, 2003 (Audio)

March 7, 2003

March 10, 2003 (Video, Audio)

March 18, 2003 (Audio)

April 17, 2003 (Audio)

July 4, 2003

July 5, 2003 (Video, Audio)

August 21, 2003 (Video, Audio)

August 27, 2003

November 21, 2009 (Video 1, Video 2, Video 3)

Trivia and Quotes:

  • This song was inspired by The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving.


“The last record, when we were writing it, I wrote this song- I wrote two songs about- I was reading this book called The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving and then I finished reading it and then I rented the movie, do you ever do that, when you finish a book and then you go to the movie store and then you find the movie and it’s just not- it’s kind of sick, like it almost seems like it’s a TV movie version and it just- the world seems wrong and you feel really upset because at least when you read like a really great book and there’s no movie attached to it, there’s like the prospect of like a really- like all your favorite stars being cast in like a really great version of it. This is- and then when you read a really great book and then a bad movie’s been made, you wonder if the book is as good as you thought it was [...] anyways I wrote a couple of songs on this record kind of that were like, influenced by that book and then the disappointment of the movie.” - Sara in 2003

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