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Description:

This is a song that Tegan Quin wrote and that appeared on the album Under Feet Like Ours. Tegan sings the lead vocals.

Lyrics:

The sun’s rays don’t bother me

No, they cast down such a wonderful heat

Masking beauty by a terrible fate

If you fly too close and then you turn too late

The night still confuses me

We’d all get tired and have to sleep eventually

Regardless of the sun’s demands

Regardless if it made much sense

You move so far that I know how far

And then you got so sad that I, I bought a car

Yes, I’ll come get you and I will bring you home

I’ll come get you and I will bring you home

He sat me down, he said he was incomplete

He thinks that true love’s gonna get him back on his feet

He said you only find love once in your life

So I guess when you find it

You gonna hold it right, ya hold it right

It makes no sense ‘cause there’s no sense in it at all

And we all wait around, we wait for you to get tired and fall

As your shadow, well it resumes with me

Yes your shadow, well it was made for me

She speaks clearly, he speaks loudly

I speak only clearly loudly

Yeah she speaks clearly, he speaks loudly

I speak only clearly loudly

And my shadow, well it resumes with me

Yes, my shadow, well it was made for me

She told me love will come once in your life

So I guess when you find it 

You gonna hold it right, you gonna hold it right

You hold it right

You move so far that I know exactly how far

And then you got so sad that I, I bought a car

Yes I’ll come get you and I will bring you home

I’ll come get you and I will bring you home

I’ll come get you and I’ll say welcome home

Live Performances:

January 16, 2001

January 27, 2001

July 11, 2001 (Audio)

November 7, 2002

Trivia and Quotes:

“This is called the car song. I play it, I don't really even like the song that much anymore, but when we recorded it, we went away right away after we recorded the album and my dad phoned me and we had cello on it and he was like crying. My dad, like is not, like an emotion person, and he's like "It's so beautiful babe" and I was like "My dad just called me babe!" Anyway, I wonder why it made him cry.” - Tegan in 2001

Credits:

Sara and Tegan: Guitar

Lilly Penner: Cello


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