| Metric – Dreams So Real Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I like your age point - a cool way to interpret the scream/yawn line. I didn't mean to imply that she was attracted to women, not sure where that inference comes from. |
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| Metric – Dreams So Real Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think you both make good points so I just have a few things to add. I agree this is autobiographical. When she sang it live in London recently it was practically confessional. The atmosphere was electric. Note that she references this song in Artifical Nocturne: "I make all that I believe in dreams so real". Perhaps a reference to her creative process, perhaps also acknowledging her visionary outlook on life. "Dreams so real we wake up in them" is a poem by her father, which concludes "an awed woe stirring us so". This is a beautiful continuation of that theme. The line is "play it stripped down to my thing" not "played stripped down to my bone". She believes in the power of *girls*. And maybe we now know her preferred sleeping atire :-) "The scream becomes a yawn" is a classic Emily double meaning. On the one hand she fears that nobody is listening to her, it's as if she's opening her mouth but nothing is coming out...on the other, it's the middle of the night, and with fatigue her screams eventually mutate to yawns. |
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| Metric – Clone Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think you got that just about spot on. This song really works for me because it balances humility in learning from the past, with the courage to stay true to yourself. Perfect advice for anyone looking to grow. |
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| Metric – The Wanderlust Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's "I've been on the prince of highways for so long". And you're right with "carry us on". |
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| Metric – The List Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Oh thank you! I was struggling a little with that line but now it makes perfect sense! | |
| Metric – Eclipse (All Yours) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Metric fans, I beg to differ with your concerns! You should rejoice in this song!! It isn't simplistic; it's just beautifully simple. It’s all too easy to write pretentiously impenetrable lyrics, but a real skill to write straightforwardly with panache. And what's more, you now own the definitive Twilight song! Just as Stephenie Meyer has delighted her fans with a complex story simply told, so too has your band conjured clarity from a whirl of emotions — and the opening verse alone contains enough literary technique to signal genuine lyrical ability. But most importantly, this song will lead people to the delights of Metric. I knew nothing of them until I encountered this Eclipse flag-bearer. I also happened to catch the video, which prefaces the core song with a vignette of Emily toying with her pad and pen as she refines the lyrics — a giveaway that whilst the band is up for a bit of vampire fun, it’s still (un)deadly serious about what it says. As a result I took a risk and, more in hope than expectation, I bought Fantasies. After about three plays, my life was enriched and Metric had itself another admirer! And in the context of ‘Gimme Sympathy’ and ‘Sick Muse’, this song sits very comfortably in the evolving Metric canon. So let's just laud this song for what it is: an unfussy, quality companion to a modern-day classic novel. |
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