Tegan and Sara – Floorplan

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  General Comment:"I want your lungs to stop working without me."

  Flag polinawon January 22, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:To me its very obvious that this song is about wanting to be with someone but being afraid of committment. You want the person to be there, to know what you want and what you need (I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart.. What you will be looking for..). At the same time you are afraid of commitment for whatever reason so when things start to get serious, you leave (I shouldn't go but I can't really help it when I feel this pressure). She knows that this is someone that she should be with, that she will regret losing (I know I'll hold this pain in my heart forever), but she can't commit.
  Very familliar feeling..

  Flag soundofsilence53on October 18, 2011   Link

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  My Interpretation:I don't know,I had some kind of my own theory before reading the comments and I should say that you guys are really smart,now my theory has a part of every single yours (except the ridiculous ones)..and is like product of your thoughts mixed with mine
  
  I feel like Sara had been in a very passionate relationship and she is still in love with her ex , and she needs a new soulmate to cope with the previous one..at least it looks that way to me
  
  and she is saying that she wants to draw her "floorplan" (to the new one) to make it easier to replace the ex that she's still in love with and she is trying to love the current lover , but she is still holding the lost in her heart and she doesn't believe that there is a chance to get over it.
  
  And sometimes she feels like she can't take it and she can't help but want to run away..and using the meaning of "building" in "I was married" I think it meant obstacle ( the government) Very strong obstacle,and I think the only one..And now she is using it as something strong inside her,something that wouldn't let her let go..but the author just couldn't resist,and she is making what she shouldn't.
  
  And about the lungs,I think she needs someone to love her so much and so truly to make her forget her ex..and I doubt that in this part with the " i think about writing you" she wants to confess everything OR to try to finish this thing,with the belief that if she write it on paper or say it she will feel better and will start going through this relationship.
  
  
  
  Or maybe the lungs thing is about her ex,I don't know.. it is not-so-catchy song,just like tegan style.. I wonder why Sara did it this way..

  Flag bojkaron October 17, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I think this is about someone loving someone more than the other person loves them back, and the narrator wants for them to, so she says "Here, I'll give you everything you need to realize that I'm exactly what you want, now love me back the way I love you."

  Flag zachimus8692on July 29, 2009   Link

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  Song Meaning:I think this song is about having to pee or poop. "I shouldn't go but I can't really help it when I feel this pressure" "All eyes are on me now"
  
  Haha I really agree with tall tall grass on this one

  Flag hoodie5704on December 18, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:The song is about being in a type of relationship "limbo", perhaps where the subject feels an overwhelming sense of "pressure" that prohibits her from being with the one she loves ("all eyes are on me now"). She wants to draw her partner a "floorplan" to tell her partner of all the pressure she's feeling, but feels unable to do so, because its a personal problem, something she needs to conquer within herself, like the judgment of a family, or the emotions of another partner; something only *she* can understand.
  
  I've lived this song, I feel the pain.

  Flag redpandasgaloreon October 29, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I think it has to do with being with someone who you know you don't perfectly click with, but you feel you should.
  You would want to draw a plan of your heart and head so they can read you, and give you exactly what you want.
  she wants the girl to give her whole self to her. To feel very strong feelings, to feel as if she can't live without her.
  But she can't help but simply accept that it will never really work, and feels that other people are blaming her for the downfall of the relationship.
  What was I looking for?
  she doesn't understand how it all really happened and doesn't know exactly what she's looking for. She thinks she wants passion, and wants the person to read her, to fulfill what she wants from the relationship, but it ultimately isn't working.

  Flag kisanon September 29, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I think..."I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart, give you directions helpful hints" means i want to tell you how to make me happy and how to make me love you because i want to.
  and... "all eyes are on me now" makes me picture a lover asking me "do you love me? do you need me?" and them waiting for my answer.
  "I want your lungs to stop working without me" means i want you to want and need me so bad that you can't live without me, so you don't leave.
  "I think about writing you, I thought about calling you" is pretty straight forward, it means i think about getting in contact with you but i can't bring myself to do it.
  and then "what you'll be looking for" or "what was i looking for" means im with you but im not sure why, i know i love you but im not sure why, but i want to be with you but i don't know if i can so you should be looking for me to run away because "I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever" and i can't love you because im damaged from my past relationship.
  
  so basically, its about a girl who has been hurt in a past relationship and wants to love this new girl she wants to tell her exactly how she can make her happy and love her but she knows it won't matter because her heart hurts, so she is stuck.

  Flag raeyvonneon September 23, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I love it! Some Sara's songs are like jigsaw puzzles, lol. I thought it was song about person, who simply gives a 'map' and 'directions' so the other person (potential sympathy) won't get 'lost'. Being an open book!
  But the rest of the lyrics just won't go with this theory :D
  "All eyes are on me now" - to me it's "go ahead blame me!"
  "What was I looking for?" - I'd like to find out that too!
  "I shouldn't go when I feel this building" - go WHERE?! out of the building?
  
  "floorplan" - singer
  "building" - relationships with ...
  
  The "floorplan" looks a little messed up, but "the building" needs some serious fixing.

  Flag ah.yes.please.on September 03, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:I love this song.
  On a less serious note, I am just going to point out the fact that Sara kind of makes it sound like she's talking about peeing herself and being embarrassed because of it:
  "I shouldn't go but I cant really help it when I feel this pressure
  I shouldn't go when I feel this building"
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  "All eyes are on me now"
  
  Ha :-).

  Flag tall.tall.grasson August 03, 2008   Link

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    LOL. I love you. XDD

    Flag Reedstaron May 12, 2009  

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