Lyrics for Are You Ten Years Ago as interpreted by delial

Are You Ten Years Ago Lyrics
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
When I feel like this, when I get so into myself
I lose track of where I'm going then, lose track of how to get going again
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 then, without me
And not knowing then, that we're slowing down
You've got to turn right around
And tell me that I'm taken then
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

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 into 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
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
When I feel like this, when I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect
Isn't 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 felt like this, when you saw it all come crashing down
Subtle but not underground, I was there
I saw the signs I saw unfair and so I wrote to you through other means
I let myself finally feel taken
Like I was yours

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Twisted-gamer
05-31-2007

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What an awesome song

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ImpliedLove
06-11-2007

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maybe an on and off relationship where even through the moments of fighting and being "off again" you're still emotionally taken although you feel like you're alone and whanot... "I'm taken I am yours, I'm up and doing circles." "Not taken, not feeling like I'm yours..."

doing circles was waiting and contemplating the entire situation but then collapsing is just letting your guard down and being commited

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fivergirl
06-19-2007

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Really great song. The music reminds me of Malcolm Middleton.

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frostedlemoncoward
06-27-2007

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This is my favourite song on the new album... well, one of the many favourites :P I can totally relate to the lyrics, although it means something new to me each time I listen to it.

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vegetable_carrot
06-28-2007

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holy pah-shit! this song is great!

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sixyearholiday
07-01-2007

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This song states all the reasons why an in-between relationship on/off again should end. I'm using it as my anthem right now. It fits everything I feel and what is happening. I love Tegan and Sara.

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zion_rose
07-11-2007

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I think that it's about two people in a relationship who are both emotionally messed on their own. When one of them gets in their funks or moods, it starts to feel like they're not even together to the other, like she's just waiting for her partner to see that she's again. They don't walk away, they just run in circles waiting.

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mistiqueblue
07-22-2007

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Oh i agree with you zion rose. I get that interpretation too, it's a really strong song and i can relate to it. I think it's bloody awesome. However, i feel that way about all of them on this album! Tegan and Sara have made so many beautifully strong songs.

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lovetypething
07-22-2007

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In their first Seattle concert this month, Tegan introduced this song by saying "I wrote this song when I was 25, so by 'Are you ten years ago?' I was asking myself, 'Are you 15?'"
So I gather part of it is the frustration of immaturity in the relationship.

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iwontregret
08-03-2007

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yahhh
i agree
i read that Tegan wrote it about her 5year relationship she just ended and how she was feeling raw and like she was 15, so are you ten years ago, yepp.
:D

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PosterOfAGirl
08-26-2007

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"iwontregret" has it right. At their concert, that's exactly what Tegan said before they played this song.

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thrwmyhrtawy.
09-09-2007

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this song gives me the chills everytime i hear it
for the longet time i thought it was called "are you ten years old?" haha.

i don't understand this song at alll.
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wannabesluts
09-12-2007

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really? i love this new album, but this song is my least faorite. it's just not their style and seems out of wack.

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yeahx329
09-19-2007

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wannabesluts, I felt the same way at first. But after listening to it 50,000 times (okay, maybe I'm exaggerating), it really grew on me. It's kind of haunting, and it's fast-paced, and it just really grows on you. Give it another shot.

Something that never grew onto me, though, was "Like O, Like h". Just never got into it. Oh well..

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harsh realm
10-17-2007

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Is it just me or are there lyrics missing?

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artificially_sweet
10-29-2007

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I really love this song. It really could be the anthem for inbetween/off-on again relationships. Which I am currently in ( and currently off ). So I can relate to this song.

It shows the insecurity and uncertainty perfectly. The funny thing about this type of relationship is you kind of don't need to say when you're on or off. Because when you're either you can just assume you'll be the other sooner or later. And sometimes you can't even tell which you want to be.

The name shows the immaturity of the lyrics perfectly. Mostly because when you hit a certain age stability reassurance is so critical. The issues kind of feel like things you should have gotten over in puberty. It's like an after school special.. which makes it hard if you feel like actually evolving and the other person would just like to stay the same.

I collapse.. I collapse.

I thought it was a really cute arrangement of this song on the album. Between a pretty suicidal song ( Knife Going In ) and a really poppy cutesy song ( Back Into Your Head ) kind of adds a bipolar feeling to the song.

hahaha

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playmyfavouritesong
11-09-2007

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i love this song! tegan and sara is the best thing happened with me this month! they are so fucken cool. damn i'm totally in love with this song and i can't stop listening it.
i like how they sing the line
"Taken I am yours"
it sounds so asking.... t.t

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danielle76
12-19-2007

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i think this song is partly about how much of a distraction love is. when your life is so consumed by someone even when you have doubts and want to let go. you lose sight of who and how you want to be and what you want to do.

"When I feel like this, when I get so into myself
I lose track of where I'm going then, lose track of how to get going again"

"When you act like this, when you get so into yourself
I lose sight of common goals and letting go"

"If you know you know
When I feel like this, when I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect"

and there's a small verse missing after this part, but i don't have the lyrics.

"You collapse
The pressure of this life is so you can't be held accountable
If you go you go"

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anabop
12-30-2007

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I think it's about her feeling uneasy about a relationship.

on one hand she doesnt want to be high strung and controlling, but on the other hand to it's hard to keep a relationship that is "too free".

I think it also involves alot of wanting to know what the person on the other realtionship is doing or feeling, but not wanting to scare them away by asking too many questions.
It's more of a "start of the relationship" song. where you try so hard to get it going steady, but don't know how well the other person in the relationship will handle it. so you constantly want to assure them that this is a relationship and you intend "this and that" for it, at the same time trying to compromise to their standards.

parts of it also remind me of a relationship that's foundation was a friendship.
it's almost like saying "we arent friends anymore, here i am, I'm yours. it's more then it used to be, and there are different things changing

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ElrondPunk
01-09-2008

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harsh realm, yeah, one verse at the middle.
please someone add it in a comment!

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maryluff
01-13-2008

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it seems to me to be more of one person's insecurity in a relationship as opposed "on again, off again" behavior by both parties. she seems really hyperactive (up and doing circles), like she can't settle and be comfortable in the relationship.

then, at the end of the song, she lets herself be taken.. she commits

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Brenda619
01-20-2008

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Oooh to me this song feels like my relationship with my boyfriend lately, thats how i understand it.


[[When I feel like this, when I get so into myself
I lose track of where I'm going then, lose track of how to get going again Feel myself slowing down Feel myself turning around]]
our relationsihp is stressful sometimes and my boyfriend doesnt know how to deal with it so he takes it out on me and of course it makes me feel shitty, it makes me want to stop trying and return to my old ways(i was a BITCH. plus when things get really bad, well lets just say i dont have the best coping skills) so i lose track of why im even trying to make it work.

[[When I feel like this, when I get so sick of myself]]
i think weve all felt like this before haha.

[[Where are you going then, without me And not knowing then, that we're slowing down You've got to turn right around And tell me that I'm taken then Tell me if I'm yours]]
i feel like this when my boyfriend is off doing his own thing. i feel like were not even in a relationship so i just want a reminder.

[[You collapse The pressure of this life is so you can't be held accountable if you go you go]]
this would apply to my boyfriend.

[[When you act like this, when you get so into yourself I lose sight of common goals and letting go So I can be all alone Feel myself going slow, feel myself letting go]]
when my boufriends acts the way he does i just feel like giving up all together. he loses sight of why he told me he'd change and stuff. yea its that bad lol


[[Not taken, not feeling like I'm yours 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]]
i feel like no matter how i try and please him nothing is ever good enough for him. when things are good everythings great but when they get bad i literally feel like collapseing and letting everything go. hes very wishy-washy about his feelings and it makes me feel like im running circles.


[[I feel myself holding back, I feel the pressure, it's finally back, I'm taken
When you felt like this, when you saw it all come crashing down
Subtle but not underground, I was there
I saw the signs I saw unfair and so I wrote to you through other means
I let myself finally feel taken
Like I was yours]]
yea that pretty much sims everything up hahaha. i know NOBODY cares abuot my relationship but i thught i could explain what this song means to me through my own experiences.

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dejajoy
04-18-2008

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after the verse

"You collapse
The pressure of this life is so you can't be held accountable
If you go you go"

goes

"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"

:D

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bella_ella
05-19-2008

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I'm like a couple of people here, I really didn't like this song or "Like O, Like H" for the longest time. I have to say they grew on me. I adore this album. I think it's one that you have to listen to a lot to understand completely. I also think you have to listen to it from start to finish, well that's what happens when I go to listen to a single track anyway...
:-D

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church1318
06-30-2008

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i think it has to do with depression. When you you just sont care about anything. if you go you go. and you dont know if you'd miss it whne they were gone. And then you wonder if its the relationshipi that makes you feel that way if its the person bringing you down. its so hard to get going again and if that person could reassure you that they're yours it might help

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