Tegan Rain Quin y Sara Keirsten Quin nacieron el 19 de septiembre de 1980 en Calgary, Alberta, Canadá. Desde muy temprana edad, las gemelas mostraron un interés ferviente por la música. Al crecer en una casa llena de discos y guitarras, no era raro verlas tocando o experimentando con melodías y letras desde que tenían ocho años.
Durante su adolescencia, Tegan y Sara comenzaron a escribir y grabar sus propias canciones. En 1998, con solo 18 años, ganaron una competencia de radio local cuyo premio era tiempo de estudio profesional para grabar un álbum. Este evento marcó el punto de partida de su carrera profesional y poco después, lanzaron su primer álbum "Under Feet Like Ours" de forma independiente en 1999.
En el año 2000, firmaron con el sello Vapor Records, fundado por Neil Young. Este acuerdo cimentó su camino a la fama. Su segundo álbum, "This Business of Art" (2000), fue bien recibido por la crítica y les permitió iniciar giras más extensas en Canadá y Estados Unidos, abriendo para bandas como Neil Young y The Pretenders.
Con el lanzamiento de "If It Was You" en 2002 y "So Jealous" en 2004, la dupla alcanzó una notoriedad aún mayor. "So Jealous" en particular hizo que captaran la atención del público internacional, gracias a canciones como "Walking with a Ghost", que fue versionada por la popular banda The White Stripes.
Had a bad day
As bad as they come
Time to get a real job
You gotta stop having fun
So I, so I got a real job
I'm working nine to nine
I'm making five bucks an hour 'til the day I die
Got a straw inside of me and it's filled just fine
Got a straw inside of me with the strongest wine
I'm one third passion, I'm two thirds pride
I said I used to have a life once
He said I used to like your smile once
Singing silence to the world
But the stars kept marching
He said silence to everyone, I said I'm still talking
Have you got some more deep inside of you
Deep inside of you
Deep inside of you
I'll always have more for me
I'll always have more for me
I take a little more for me
More for me
More for me, baby
I got a picture of the way the world has summed me up
If I could have one wish I sure wish that I had never grown up
I got a picture of the way I looked when I was three
I came out laughing screaming dancing
I came out laughing screaming dancing
I used to be free spirited
Now I'm just free of sleep
I got a burning passion in my throat
I got a burning passion inside me
I got a job that wastes my time and gift
I got a life that needs a serious lift
And all the things I wanted
Yes all the things I want
Go (all the things I want)
Go on and on and on and on
Yes, it go on and on and on and on
You said have you got some more deep inside of you
I'll always have more for me
I'll always have more for me
I'll take a little more for me
More for me
More for me, baby
He says all the things I want they go
All the things I want they go
All the things I want they go
All the things I want they go
So I take a little more for me
I take a little more for me
I take a little more for me
More for me
More for me