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White Knuckles

Description:

This is a song that Sara Quin wrote and that appeared on the album Love You to Death. Sara sings the lead vocals and Tegan sings the background vocals.


The music video was directed by Minister Akins.

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Lyrics:

(Knuckles turned white, knuckles turned white)

(Knuckles turned white)

My life tethered like, like a twin or a son

Scared to be severed right, right before we'd begun

Doubled like a couple we stood, stood out in the light, light

Clutching each other like, knuckles turned white, white

I cried wolf, howled it at the moon

So, luck be damned

Break that mirror in two

I made us feel, feel unlucky too

So, luck be damned

Break that mirror in two

(Knuckles turned white, knuckles turned white)

(Knuckles turned white)

Our love twisted up, like a chain or an eight

We square angles that, that always will ache

Excuses for the bruises we wear, black and blue night, night

Breaking each other like knuckles in a fight, fight

I cried wolf, howled it at the moon

So, luck be damned

Break that mirror in two

I made us feel, feel unlucky too

So, luck be damned

Break that mirror in two

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what this howling will prove (Oh)

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what I'm go- what I’m gonna lose (Oh)

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what this howling will prove (Oh)

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what I'm go- what I’m gonna lose (Oh)

(Knuckles turned white, knuckles turned white)

(Knuckles turned white)

I cried wolf, howled it at the moon

So, luck be damned

Break that mirror in two

I made us feel, feel unlucky too

So, luck be damned

Break that mirror in two

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what this howling will prove (Oh)

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what I'm go- what I’m gonna lose (Oh)

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what this howling will prove (Oh)

Cry, cry wolf

I don't know what I'm go- what I’m gonna lose (Oh)

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Trivia and Quotes:

“Even though I didn’t write this song, I think it’s really funny that’s it’s about Sara and I’s relationship as siblings and some of the darker, harder parts of our career. I had no idea, so when Sara sent it to me, I was just like, Woooow. You know, marveling. Because Sara’s such a lyricist, she just has this way with words. The song’s so sad and I was just imagining Sara writing, feeling sad, and maybe thinking about some past relationship. Then I started relating it to me and what relationships I had been through. Then two months later, when we started talking about the meanings of the song in the press, Sara was like, “Oh yeah, I wrote this song about Tegan and I, the toughest part of our career, and how I felt trapped being in a band with her.” And I just thought, Wow, what an idiot I am. [Laughs] Like, okay, cool, no wonder it resonated with me so much because it was about me! You know, when we get into the studio, I don’t need to be sold on a song. So I never have thought to ask Sara what she’s writing about. I feel like I know what’s going on in her life, her relationships, how she’s doing. She’s happy, she’s in this committed, loving relationship of five years and they have cats, so I just assumed she was writing about the past — and I was sort of right. She was writing about our past. It’s weird, we’ve just never talked about it.” - Tegan in 2016

Credits:

Tegan Quin/Sara Quin

Sony/ ATV Allegro (ASCAP)/Naked In A Snowsuit Publishing (SOCAN)

Greg Kurstin: Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano

Sara Quin: Vocals

Tegan Quin: Vocals


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