Hype
Description:
This is a song that Sara Quin wrote and that appeared first on the album Under Feet Like Ours and then later on the album This Business of Art. Sara sings the lead vocals and Tegan sings the background vocals.
Lyrics:
Under Feet Like Ours version:
(Hype)
One time in your life
You’ve got the route in hand but the map is stuck
They said it’s not your fault the tires are tired
Then the camera moves and your driver’s been pulled
And I, I have always felt this
And I could never, I could never hear it (Hype)
So I turned it up and turned it on and turned it down
Always the volume, always the words
Review the press and tell it like it is
Your life is hype, your love is hype
And I, well I will clench my own fist
And I will always, I will always wait
You said, there’s more
There’s more than blood that beats through my heart
My hands, my feet
Stuck between my tongue and my teeth
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we only go forward
Two times in your life you will trace the edge
You will sink your toes in
Review my press and tell it like it is
My life is hype, my love is hype
And I, well I will clench my own fist
And I will always, I will always wait
You said, there’s more
There’s more than blood that beats through my heart
My hands, my feet
Stuck between my tongue and my teeth
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we only go forward
(Hype) We go forward {Hype}
{Hype} I’d wait up all night for you (Hype)
{Hype} I’d wait up all night for you (Hype)
I’d wait up and you will (Hype)
I’d wait up and you will (Hype)
(Hype) Wait for, wait for tomorrow
Wait for, wait for tomorrow
Wait for, wait for tomorrow
Wait for, wait for tomorrow {Wait for tomorrow}
Wait for, wait for tomorrow
Wait for, wait for tomorrow
(Wait for, wait for tomorrow)
{Wait for, wait for tomorrow} Wait for
{Wait for, wait for, wait for} Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
(Wait for tomorrow)
(Wait for, wait for tomorrow)
Wait for tomorrow
This Business of Art version:
One time in your life
You’ve got the route in hand but the map is stuck
They said it’s not your fault the tires are tired
The camera moves and your driver’s been pulled
And I, well I have always felt this
And I could never, I could never hear it
So I turned it up and turned it on and turned it down
Always the volume, always the words
Review the press and tell it like it is
Your life is hype, your love is hype
And I, well I will clench my own fist
And I will always, I will always wait
Well there’s more, there’s more than blood
That beats through my heart
Well my hands and my feet
Stuck between my tongue and my teeth
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we only go forward
Two times in your life you will trace the edge
Sink your toes in
Review my press and tell it like it is
My life is hype, my love is hype
And I, well I will clench my own fist
And I will always, I will always wait
Well there’s more, there’s more than blood
That beats through my heart
Well my hands and my feet
Stuck between my tongue and my teeth
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we only go forward
(Hype, hype)
{Hype} I’d wait up all night for you
{Hype} I’d wait up all night for you
I’d wait up all night {I’d wait up, I’d wait up}
For you {I’d wait up, I’d wait up}
I’d wait up all night {I’d wait up, I’d wait up}
For you {I’d wait up, I’d wait up}
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we only go forward
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we only go forward
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
We don’t know so we wait for tomorrow
Live Performances:
October 7, 1999
August 20, 2000 (Audio)
August 22, 2000
September 3, 2000
September 14, 2000 (Video, Audio)
October 21, 2000 (Audio)
October 22, 2000 (Audio)
October 23, 2000
October 24, 2000 (Audio)
January 10, 2001 (Video)
January 16, 2001
January 23, 2001 (Audio)
January 26, 2001 (Audio)
January 27, 2001
January 29, 2001
January 30, 2001
March 8, 2001
April 25, 2001 (Audio)
May 6, 2001
May 16, 2001
May 22, 2001
July 11, 2001 (Audio)
July 14, 2001 (Audio)
July 29, 2001
August 14, 2001
August 17, 2001 (Audio)
August 25, 2001
July 20, 2002
July 21, 2002 (Audio)
August 7, 2002
August 8, 2002
September 16, 2002
September 17, 2002
September 19, 2002
September 24, 2002
September 26, 2002 (Audio)
September 27, 2002 (Audio)
October 1, 2002 (Audio)
November 7, 2002
November 8, 2002 (Audio)
November 12, 2002
November 16, 2002
November 17, 2002
November 18, 2002
November 20, 2002 (Audio)
November 25, 2002 (Audio)
November 26, 2002
January 12, 2003 (Video, Audio)
January 18, 2003
Trivia and Quotes:
Sara said she wrote this song about how people hyped them up in the beginning of their career.
Sara: I wrote Hype about… I don’t even know what I wrote it about, I hadn’t written in a long time, my whole entire writing career has been actual writing blocks since the beginning, so. I don’t ever feel like I’ve gone on a really good-
Tegan: When she writes a song it’s a bad thing, cause it means six months of her not writing.
Sara: Yeah, I have trouble with writing, I don’t know why. Hype I kind of wrote... I don’t know, fuck I don’t even know, I guess it’s sort of about, same sort of thing as Superstar, kind of like getting on a good wave and then not getting too high on yourself cause you can come back down, I guess, like you can- I don’t know, it was kind of like- And then not feeling bad about it either though, like I don’t- I think it’s about being strong and like no matter what’s going on and, it’s kind of like a strength song. When I started playing it, I really was like, it was a cool thing it’s like- it probably came from feeling like, everyone was always hyping us up and then we get there and the normal reaction for our first year of touring was like, people would come to the show and they’d be like ‘Wow, I heard a lot of shit about you guys, you guys are good but- I heard a lot of stuff’ like meaning like, we weren’t living up to the expectations, so. I kind of wrote that song meaning that, like people put so much on you and [Shrugs] they don’t think it’s cool, oh well, y’know.
Credits:
UFLO version:
Sara and Tegan: Guitar