We politely demand a info dump about quincest please
Ok I’m gonna infodump about the songs I think are about each other
Divided: we know this, they’ve told us
Come On: I don’t really have a theory for this one but I do think it’s quincesty
This Is Everything: frosted lemon coward refers to Sara’s blonde hair. ‘No I’m not aware of how I could possibly love you without aching’
Not With You: I haven’t seen many people talking about this but I remember they once mentioned getting drunk on Long Island ice tea and then throwing up on the subway tracks and I am 1000% sure that’s what the ‘from the liquor stores to the train stop floors’ line refers to. I am so so certain this song is about tegan and that is wild bc ‘your fluid is thick against my sheets’ is one of Sara’s most sexual lyrics and I’m still not over it
City Girl: my memory is a little fuzzy here but I recall someone saying it’s about Sara moving to Montreal? Idk if it really works as I don’t know exactly when she moved. So idk but I like the idea
Not Tonight: is about the incestuous relationship in The Hotel New Hampshire which is clearly very important to Sara and it’s bc she relates to the characters since she’s in the same situation
Terrible Storm: since it uses a lot of the same lyrics as Not Tonight I suspect it’s also about THNH
Want to be Bad: same as Not Tonight
Don’t Confess: ‘don’t think I’ll confess, don’t think I’ll deny’ feels exactly like what they’re doing rn, not confessing quincest is real but dropping too many hints to convincingly deny it
I Know I Know I Know: ‘you’re still my love’ but it’s complicated bc Sara moving to Montreal essentially caused them to break up
So Jealous: ‘I want the ocean right now’ Tegan is the ocean, they’ve literally admitted this
Fix You Up/I Can’t Take It: these songs feel like a set, from each of their perspectives. Tegan said once that hearing I Can’t Take It felt like Sara standing on her chest, this song really hit her. I feel like Fix You Up is a response to I Can’t Take It, which I’m pretty sure Tegan said is about Sara
The Con (album): I don’t think there really are quincesty songs on this album (not when they were written at least). I think their breakup had sunk in by then, Tegan was preoccupied with her crush on Lindsey and Sara with her problems with Emy
The Ocean: takes Sara’s metaphor of the ocean meaning Tegan
Light Up: not really about Tegan but about their mom, must’ve been influenced by how Sara thinks she must see them and their relationship
When I Get Up: wasn’t originally written for Sara but they had that special moment and will now always have that special connection to quincest
Sheets: ‘remove us from the scene of the crime’ the crime = them having sex, ‘you want the marrying type, a commitment’ they can’t have this together
It Was Midnight: ‘It was monday, you were packing on my floor, my eyes were charting every move you made, it was early evening before you were home and I was sure you were safe, I can’t concentrate, I try so hard to plan to keep you here, I can't evaluate, I threw away the list to convince you, don't run away, it only fuels the flames, don't pull away, it only makes me wanna stay’. This is about Sara leaving to Montreal and breaking up their relationship
Body Work: Tegan said it was about her, Sara got a little too embarrassed, see one of my latest posts
Closer: Tegan said in an interview she wrote this song for Sara
I’m Not Your Hero: Sara feels uncomfortable being seen as a role model for the lgbtq community bc she feels ashamed she’s hiding her relationship with Tegan
Drove Me Wild: do I really need to explain
Guilty As Charged: THIS is one of the most quincesty songs it’s there already in the title, it’s so clearly about wanting someone you can’t be with. ‘I am yours but you can’t be mine, I am sure you’ll always be mine’ ‘caught in the act, you were on my mind, lucky for you, now I’m on your mind’
Faint Of Heart: ‘everyone will say it’s dangerous to take this path, everyone will tell us apart that we are more intact, everyone will say that we’re crazy and that we won’t last, everyone will tell us alone that we are better off’ ok I started typing out the quincesty part but I just realized I would be writing out the entire lyrics
Stop Desire: again do I really need to explain
White Knuckles: Sara literally told us it’s about Tegan this romantic af song that even Tegan assumed was about a romantic partner (which it is). ‘Doubled like a couple we stood’
100x: same as White Knuckles, she also literally told us it’s about Tegan. ‘You went silent watching as I packed, rehearsed the words you hoped would get me back, shout it out and let your whole world fall, I was someone you loved, then I was no one at all’ compare this to the lyrics of It Was Midnight. Literally about the same situation.
BWU: the reason she didn’t wanna get married is bc she can’t marry Tegan (but their wives needed a visa so 🤷🏻♀️)
Hey I’m Just Like You: they’re twins (duh). ‘Together in the light I swear all for you’ they’ll lie about her feelings to keep each other safe. ‘Tonight in the dark we’re seeing colors’ taking drugs or having sex (both?). ‘Sometimes we get so tired of pretending like you’re so strong, everyone you love has gone on and decided that you’re so wrong’ it’s tough to deal with people saying incest is immoral. Also in the music video the footage from the car during the guitar solo is making me wonder if something happened in that moment, like it seemed like a very intense moment paired with the music like that
Don’t Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie): ‘The things I've almost told you, all the things I've thought about you, it takes all my strength to face you, to hold still, and when you give me your attention, things get lost in translation, again, tell you I don't love you at all, but I do love you’. Telling each other they hated each other bc they couldn’t tell each other they were in love
I Can’t Take It (Still Jealous): special mention not bc quincest but bc Tegan turned this into a horny song and I respect that
Yellow: Sara: ‘for me this song is about Tegan and my relationship with her’ also Sara: ‘we went wild, just taking off our clothes’. Also compare ‘this bruise ain’t black it’s yellow’ and ‘excuses for the bruises we wear, black and blue night night’ from White Knuckles. Their relationship is healing, but yellow bruises are not gone yet so there’s still more healing to be done
