Calculation (Theme)

Metric

I'm sick, you're tired, let's dance
Break to love make lust I know it isn't
I'm sick, you're tired, let's dance (dance, dance)
Cold as numbers but let's dance

As though it were easy
For you to lead me
I could be passive
Gracefully

Half the horizon's gone
Skyline of numbers
Half the horizon's gone
Working the numbers
'Til I'm sick

Sleep don't pacify us until
Daybreak sky lights up the grid we live in
Dizzy when we talk so fast
Fields of numbers streaming fast

I wish we were farmers
I wish we knew how to
Grow sweet potatoes
And milk cows
I wish we were lovers
But its for the best

Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost
Where is the love?
Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost
Who here is in line for a raise?
Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost
Where is the love?
Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost
Who put these bodies between us?


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    has anyone seen metric live? they are so amazing i saw them at irving plaza, they were opening for the stills but after the concert it was like "who the hell are the stills"

    Ignis37on May 24, 2004   Link

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