The first, a play on ‘til death do us part; the second, being the notion that as family their
relationship has them tied forever. The duo explores the idea of relationships deeper than
audiences may realize. “We also write a lot on our relationship to things, like to each
other, or to marriage, or to identity, to our (LGBT) community and to the world at
large,” says Tegan. All the while, the pair maintains the goal of creating music that people
can connect to. She believes music often transports people, the artist and the audience,
to a time and place or even an emotion. It’s what makes relationships such a connecting
theme. “I think it is pretty common, we have all been in a place where we have felt rejected or made mistakes and it didn’t work. As time goes on we have to reprocess these things
many times. And I think for me, I am often writing about things that happened a really
long time ago but I have a new perspective,” says Tegan, which can easily be connected to
songs like Dying to Know a catchy, synth-heavy plea to a former lover wondering whether
things with their new partner worked out. A feeling too many of us can relate to.