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My Number

Description:

This is a song that Tegan Quin wrote and that appeared on the album This Business of Art. Tegan sings the lead vocals and Sara sings the background vocals. Sara also sings lead vocals on the second verse.

Lyrics:

Shower’s pounding out a new beat

I trade my old shoes for new feet

I grab a new seat, I don’t like the one I got

Fabric’s wearing through and it’s wearing me out

You’re wearing me down

Watching old baseball games and low budget telethons

Ain’t like watching you yourself, when you yourself is on

Got time to wonder to waste and to whine

But when it comes to you it seems like I just can’t

Find time {Find the time}

So watch your head and then watch the ground

It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown

It’s a silly time to learn to swim on the way down

If I gave you my number, would it still be the same?

If I, if I saved you from drowning

Promise me you’ll never go away

Oh, promise me you’ll always stay

Closed down the last local zoo

I’m gonna win the endless war

Over who kills the last koala bear

And who in death will love him more and I

He grabs me by the hand, drags me to the shore and says

Maybe you don’t love me, but you’ll grow to love me even more

And I, well I’m not surprised

If I gave you my number, would it still be the same?

If I, if I saved you from drowning

Promise me you’ll never go away

Oh, promise me you’ll always stay

Shower’s pounding out a new beat

I trade my old shoes for new feet

I grab a new seat, I don’t like the one I got

My fabric’s wearing through and it’s wearing me out

You’re wearing me down, oh, oh

You’re wearing me down, oh, oh

So watch your head baby and watch the ground

It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown

It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown

If I gave you my number, would it still be the same?

If I, if I saved you from drowning

Promise me you’ll never go away

Oh if I, if I gave you my number, would it still be the same?

If I, if I saved you from drowning

Promise me you’ll never go away

Oh, promise me you’ll always stay

Promise me you’ll always stay

Live Performances:

YouTube playlist


October 7, 1999

August 21, 2000 (Live & Direct Volume 3)

August 22, 2000

August 29, 2000

September 2, 2000

September 14, 2000

October 21, 2000

October 22, 2000

October 23, 2000

October 24, 2000

January 16, 2001

January 23, 2001

January 26, 2001

January 27, 2001

January 29, 2001

January 30, 2001

March 9, 2001

April 25, 2001

May 6, 2001

May 16, 2001

May 22, 2001

July 11, 2001

July 14, 2001

July 26, 2001

July 29, 2001

August 14, 2001

August 18, 2001

August 25, 2001

August 7, 2002

September 16, 2002

September 17, 2002

September 19, 2002

September 24, 2002

September 27, 2002

October 1, 2002

October 4, 2002

October 8, 2002

November 7, 2002

November 8, 2002

November 16, 2002

November 17, 2002

November 18, 2002

November 20, 2002

November 25, 2002

January 18, 2003

March 2, 2003

March 3, 2003

March 4, 2003

March 7, 2003

March 10, 2003

March 18, 2003

July 5, 2003

August 21, 2003

July 13, 2005

July 14, 2005

July 16, 2005

July 22, 2005

August 1, 2005

August 2, 2005

August 3, 2005

October 9, 2005

October 15, 2005

October 3, 2007

October 13, 2007

November 1, 2007

January 8, 2010

January 13, 2010

January 14, 2010

January 18, 2010

January 20, 2010

January 22, 2010

January 23, 2010

January 25, 2010

February 12, 2010

February 13, 2010

February 15, 2010

February 16, 2010

February 18, 2010

February 20, 2010

February 20, 2013

February 22, 2013

February 23, 2013

February 24, 2013

February 26, 2013

March 4, 2013

March 6, 2013

March 7, 2013

March 9, 2013

March 10, 2013

March 11, 2013

March 15, 2013

April 30, 2013

May 2, 2013

May 9, 2013

May 13, 2013

June 12, 2013

June 20, 2013

June 24, 2013

June 25, 2013

June 24, 2014

July 14, 2014

Trivia and Quotes:

  • In live performances of the song, Tegan often changed the lyric “win the endless war” to “end the endless war” and also changed “love him more” to “love me more.” She also sometimes changed the “He” in the song to “Keanu” because the song appeared in the soundtrack for the movie Sweet November, which had Keanu Reeves in it.


“I remember ‘My number’ was written about my best friend, who, he like had this intense emotional relationship with me and then he fell in love with me. It was so hard for me, I felt so sad for the loss, and the loss was so gigantic because I was in the midst in a kind of emotional love affair with a friend of his who was a female. The triangle between us was so sad and so hard, and I put a ‘he’ in the song and I hate playing the song now because it’s so hard to explain that to people. Where as if I has just written the song and taken that one word out, the song would make universal sense to everyone ... so I stopped saying he, and for years started saying ‘Keanu’ because ‘My number’ was in the movie he was in! So I was all like, ‘this song is for Keanu’.” - Tegan in 2008

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