| Metric – Clone Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Emily's getting old but she's not done yet. "Call me out; my regret only makes me stronger yet." Yeah, sure, tell her about her mistakes. She can't go back and fix them but remembering them will steel her. "Nothing I've ever done right happened on the safe side." She took chances. It's too late in the day, Too late in the day to turn it around or change my mind << She can't go back. It's too late in the day to take you on all the rides << You've decided to join this party a little too late, sorry. It's too late in the day to tell me I'm off the path << Her course is set. We're already in the aftermath << That story is over. It's no use trying to fix the past. You just have to go forward through the aftermath, out the other side, into something new. |
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| Metric – Synthetica Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Several Metric songs are about attempting to assert personal identity in the face of corporatized culture. It's "waiting for the crowd shot to be seen," not "crap shot." The singer is an extra in a movie, waiting for the "crowd shot" so she can be seen. But even that is better than being "synthetica," a preprogrammed android, drugged on antidepressants ('something no pill could ever kill'), branded and trademarked. "Synthetica" sounds like a fake drug name, of course. She'll keep the life that she's got even if it sucks, even if she's "ever underwanted," because she "won't ever let them make a loser of my soul." Maybe life sucks but at least you're you and that counts for something. A lot actually. |
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| Metric – Speed The Collapse Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is a really bleak album if you pay attention to the lyrics. I like it. :) Notice the last two stanzas. The "collapse" will always come. It's inevitable. It's recurrent. It doesn't matter if you build a new mansion and build it to last. The storm will return and scatter what remains, and ultimately, scatter your remains. |
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| Metric – Dreams So Real Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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As usual, Emily Haines is the voice of Gen X. Several of Metric's songs are about being trapped in between two generations older and younger than us with the sense that we have no real control over the culture, and no culture of our own other than remix culture. (See: Dead Disco.) This song is an expression of that depression. Emily tried to "make a stand" but only "made a scene." Nothing she did was meaningful. Nothing we do is meaningful. We might as well give up, sit back, and let the kids take over. Here's the core: Our parents, daughters and sons << Notice: not just our parents Believed in the power of songs What if those days are gone? << Just for us, kids, not for you. Also, we hate you because we suck. My memory is strong Anyone not dying is dead << isn't that a comforting thought. And baby it won't be long << pretty soon we'll just leave the planet to the next generation So shut up and carry on << might as well get resigned to living out our days The scream becomes a yawn << we tried to make a mark when we were younger and failed Emily Haines is 37, and from personal experience, I can tell you, being 37 in 2012 sucks. |
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