The Cure
Description:
This is a song that Tegan Quin wrote in collaboration with Hunter Burgan and that appeared on the album Sainthood. Tegan sings the lead vocals and the background vocals.
Lyrics:
Begging like you might take order in your own hands
I stare, seems like I don’t care
Drop a chance in your hands then
I know that bad’s got to fix itself, correct over time
And I know ‘cause I’ve got the cure
I’ve got a cure for your crimes
All I dreamed up, all that seemed like luck
Seems silly to you now
All I said to you, all I did for you
Seems so silly to me now
Screaming like no one might
Call the cops and arrest you this time
Standing back against my building’s back door
You’re hoping for a ride
I know the world’s been mean to you
I’ve got a cure, hold tight
I know the world’s not fair to you
I've got a cure for its crimes
All I dreamed up, all that seemed like luck
Seems silly to you now
All I said to you, all I did for you
Seems so silly to me now
Oh oh when you say it, so so slowly to me
Oh oh well I keep going, oh no I ran while knowing
No no I know you need it, so so I need it too
And oh oh I must keep going, so you must too
And oh oh when you say it, so so slowly to me
Oh oh well I keep going, oh no I ran while knowing
No no I know you need it, so so I need it too
And oh oh I must keep going, so you must too
Oh oh, I’ve got a cure, I’ve got the cure for you
I’ve got a cure, I’ve got the cure for you
All I dreamed up, all that seemed like luck
Seems silly to you now
All I said to you, all I did for you
Seems so silly to me now
All I dreamed up, all that seemed like luck
Seems silly to you now
All I said to you, all I did for you
Seems so silly to me now
I’ve got a cure, I’ve got the cure for you
I’ve got a cure, I’ve got the cure for you
Live Performances:
Trivia and Quotes:
Tegan: I wrote [The Cure] with a friend of mine, it was one of the first times I’d ever written songs with someone else before, besides Sara. I didn’t think it was gonna make it anywhere, and Sara was hanging out in New York last year and she emailed me one night and she said that she’d been walking around listening to this next song and that she thought we should make it a Tegan and Sara song. I get really nervous playing it because I feel like I’m doing a cover song or something, like it doesn’t feel like it’s part of me yet, but whenever I play it I imagine Sara walking around in New York all depressed in the rain.
Sara: I was- the first time-
Tegan: You were sad, right?
Sara: The first time that I put it on my iPod and I was walking around, I actually cried.
Tegan: Really?
Sara: Because, especially because- I did, I actually cried, I was walking around and I was singing, when I figured out what the chorus was, and then I was singing it and I was crying. And I felt, I already felt very unattractive in New York because everyone’s tall and so well-dressed and interesting. And that I just, I’ve already told this, I’ve said this before that I don’t even think people really realized I was crying because probably from- because they’re up so tall, I think they probably thought that there was just rain up ahead.
Tegan: Yeah.
Sara: Like I had just been through a sprinkler or I just like- or someone had dropped water on me like from a water bottle while we were running.
Tegan: It’s very sad.
Sara: Yeah, it was sad.
Tegan: Well, so that’s what I think of when I play this next song. Maybe when you’re listening to it on the new record, you could think about Sara, very short Sara, in New York crying.