I think as women who are dating women - not that I’ve only experienced that with women, I think that when I was dating men I felt the same way - it’s difficult. And I don’t find that music helps me actually get them out of me or stop doing the circle, so I just start singing about it… And I see that circle imagery - that idea of walking in circles - as how my songs process inside of me. ‘Taken’ was the word my roommate and I used to explain when you were in a relationship but not… I feel very much like I’m a high-anxiety, high-stress, high-worry kind of person, and I’ve really been battling that for the last few years. The song is very much this bipolar conversation with myself about being taken. You create this person that you’re going to be, and then it all falls apart. Once you get through the first three or four months, that’s when it all comes out. Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me it affects no one yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster. You fall in love with someone, you make sacrifices and you do things so you can stay together. I was thinking about how funny it is that my life seems so simple and natural, what everyone does in life. I didn’t want to get married and wasn’t getting married but it felt so formal, like a wedding. So we got up really early and went to this notary in Old Montreal. As part of the application process you have to go in and basically declare your common law status before notary.
The personal experience was that my girlfriend and I are common law, but she’s an American and we were doing a permanent residency application for her to stay in Canada.
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