Knife Going In

Album: The Con (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • Sara Quin wrote this song about a dream she had after her grandmother died. In the dream, she was in her grandmother's bedroom and someone stabbed her, but she didn't die. >>>
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    sara - everson, WA
  • That's Chris Walla, of Death Cab for Cutie fame, on bass, and renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Kaki King on lap steel guitar. Tegan and Sara are known to be quite chummy with their indie music peers; The Con also includes guest musicians Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie, Matt Sharp from Weezer, and Hunter Burgan of AFI.
  • The whole album The Con was written at a turbulent point in their lives; Tegan was feeling the pangs of the end of a five-year relationship, while Sara was struggling to get her own significant other's immigration to Canada finalized.
  • Notice the odd, tinkling, music-box quality to the instrumentals here, and the way they seem to come together with the melody almost accidentally. It reminds you of the quote from the A.V. Club about how the best Tegan and Sara songs stumble along recklessly, and then falling together.

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