Closer

Description:

This is a song that Tegan Quin wrote in collaboration with Sara Quin and Greg Kurstin. It appeared on the album Heartthrob. Sara helped write the chorus and came up with the lyric "let's make things physical".

The music video was directed by Isaac Rentz and was filmed on August 28, 2012.

The lyric video was created by Travis Hopkins.

Music video behind the scenes: Video, Photos

Video:

Lyrics:

All I want to get is a little bit closer

All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?

Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closer

Here comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer

The doors are open the wind is really blowing

The night sky is changing overhead

It's not just all physical

I'm the type who won't get oh so critical

So let's make things physical

I won't treat you like you're oh so typical

All you think of lately is getting underneath me

All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me

Here comes the heat before we meet, a little bit closer

Here comes the spark before the dark, come a little closer

The lights are off and the sun is finally setting

The night sky is changing overhead

It's not just all physical

I'm the type who won't get oh so critical

So let's make things physical

I won't treat you like you're oh so typical

I want you close, I want you

I won't treat you like you're typical

I want you close, I want you

I won't treat you like you're typical

Here come the dreams of you and me

Here come the dreams

Here come the dreams of you and me

Here come the dreams

It's not just all physical

I'm the type who won't get oh so critical

So let's make things physical

I won't treat you like you're oh so typical

I want you close, I want you

I won't treat you like you're typical

I want you close, I want you

I won't treat you like you're typical

All I want to get is a little bit closer

All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?

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Trivia and Quotes:

Tegan and Sara wrote a Substack post about this song.

“I wrote this song very quickly. I did it almost in retaliation to Sara, because she was writing these complex, deep, introspective songs, and no matter how hard I tried to match her songs, it wasn't working. I got little to no reaction from her when I would send new ideas. So I wrote the most basic, straight-ahead pop song to do something totally like I would want to hear, and what I imagined she would not want to hear. I sent her the song an hour after I wrote it, and she emailed me right back and said, "Finish it." I did seven versions of the song before we hit the studio with producer Greg Kurstin. Warner, our label, and Greg thought it was the single for the album Heartthrob so we went to work on it right away. We spent most of the two months working with Greg tinkering with the song. We needed a stronger chorus — the original chorus was actually what is now the bridge — and it took a long time to land on the right melody and words. It's a true collaboration between Sara and me, in that sense. It was the first time in years, really since high school, that we'd sat in a room hammering out an idea together. I think we knew right away it was going to be a big song. We worried, of course, that it would alienate fans of the more indie version of us. But we just hoped that people would listen to the deeper meaning of the song and appreciate how catchy it was. Is it one of our "best" songs? I don't know. But it certainly was our biggest hit ever.” - Tegan in 2022