"The Con"

Tegan and Sara

Indie/Pop/Alternative

Getting stressed with school. Needed music to soothe me. I have found 2 really good sounds, Tegan & Sara and Tokio Hotel (TH talked about in a separate post). Both completely different ends of the rock genre. Can't really decide which of T&S's is my favourite but I do really like the lyrics of Are You Ten Years Ago. 

I know the lyrics look repetitive (and they are) but they don't sound it. They don't drive you crazy at all but the twins' pleasingly different vocals and techniques make the song unique and addictive to listen to. I think the reason I like these lyrics are because they are strange and almost don't make sense. But they make sense to me. I can relate to them and this time it's not all "I feel sad, I can relate to this song". But rather that I think of it similar to my everyday life and how like the song I feel slightly crazy.

Check their songs out at: www.myspace.com/teganandsara

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Are You Ten Years Ago.

If you're taken I am yours 
I'm up and doing circles 
I'm taken, I am yours I'm up and doing circles 
I'm taken, I am yours I'm up and doing circles 
I'm taken, I am yours I'm up and doing circles 
I collapse 
I might stay out longer than I left the light on for you 
Then if you show, you show 
If you show, you show 
When I feel like this 
When I get so in
To myself 
I lose track of where I'm going and lose track of how to get going again 
I feel myself slowing down 
Feel myself turning around 
Is this taken? 
When I feel like this 
When I get so sick of myself 
Where are you going now without me 
And not knowing then, that we're slowing down 
You've gotta turn that around 
And tell me that I'm taken, 
Tell me if I'm yours 
You collapse 
The pressure of this life is so 
You can't be held accountable 
If you go, you go 
If you go, you go 
When you act like this 
When you get so sick, of yourself 
The whole world falls away and since
I feel 
Like I have only missed the feeling that I'm here again 
The feeling that I'm clear again 
I'm not taken 
When you act like this 
When you get so in
To yourself I lose sight of common goals 
And letting go so I can be all alone 
Feel myself, going slow 
Feel myself, letting go 
Not taken,
Not feeling like I'm yours
I'm taken, I am yours 
I'm up and doing circles 
I'm taken, I am yours 
I'm up and doing circles 
I'm taken, I am yours 
I'm up and doing circles 
I'm taken, I am yours 
I'm up and doing circles 
I collapse 
This life looks like a sentence, though 
A constant game of falling short 
If you know, you know 
If you know, you know 
When I feel like this 
When I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect 
Is it right for me I never fight to see if coming clean 
Would get to me I feel myself, holding back 
I feel the pressure, it's finally back 
I'm taken 
When you feel like this 
When you saw it call come crashing down 
Subtle but not underground 
I was there 
I saw the signs, I saw unfair 
And so I write to you 
Through other means 
I let myself finally feel taken 
Like I was yours 
If you're taken I am yours 
I'm up and doing circles 
I'm taken, I am yours 
I'm up and doing circles 
I collapse I collapse I collapse.

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