posterus somnium
Take Care-Tom Rosenthal
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about you. But I’d forgotten what it felt like to lose myself in you. And now I’m leaving, leaving you here. Right when it seems like we finally figured it out. I hope this isn’t the end of our story, I hope there’s more. But for now, I have to go, and I am going to miss you terribly.
I married in the sun
(tell me where tell me where)
Against the stone of buildings built before
You and I were born
(start again start again)
And to my heart confusion rose against
The muscles fought so long
(fought so long)
To control against the pull of
One magnet to another magnet
To another magnet
Now we look up in
(tell me who tell me who)
To the hours of bodies breaking past
They seem so very tough
(it’s a lie it’s a lie)
They seem so very scared of us
I look into the mirror
(look into)
For evil that just does not exist
I don’t see what they see
(tell them that tell them that)
Try to control the pull of one magnet
To another magnet
To another magnet
To another magnet
To another
“But putting herself out there is not just a musical construction-it also comes naturally in conversation. When discussing Emy Storey-the band’s artistic director and Sara’s girlfriend of five years, with whom she had declared a common-law relationship-Sara was candid about the dissolution of their romance. ‘[Emy] is a tremendously huge part of what Tegan and I do in terms of the artwork and the Web site and the vision,’ she said. ‘In kind of a weird way, she was like my Yoko Ono for five years. : It’s really difficult when the romantic part of your relationship kind of seems like it’s over, but you can’t just dissolve the rest of it-that would be awful. We’re obviously really involved and we want to continue to work together, but it’s really tough.’
Ironically enough, The Con’s opening track, ‘I Was Married,’ was penned by Sara the day she and Emy had declared their relationship. Although rarely overtly political in her songwriting, ‘I Was Married’ is a polemic against those who oppose gay marriage:“They seem so very scared of us / I look into the mirror, for evil that just does not exist / I don’t see what they see.”
