| Metric – Celebrate Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Lovely song, | |
| Metric – Lie Lie Lie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I guess it's pretty damn obvious, but I think Metric is drawing a parallel to their experience in the record industry early on to what models/actors have to deal with. having your work dumbed down, being shunned for choosing your own path. This is a reoccurring theme for Metric songs, for a long time they were basically bartered and sold to various companies before they finally decided to become independent. They probably got fooled and lied to before they gained the experience and fame they have now. |
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| Metric – Other Side Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I feel like the song is about letting go, understanding that things may happen. The "Other Side" to me represents the end of life. I think when James Shaw says "And all I want is to feel like all I got Didn't cost me everything" I think this means that you spent all of your time worrying instead of simply living and experiencing. I really enjoyed this tune, so lovely and so true. Like always from Metric. |
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| Metric – The Shade Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[nivad:5924] Wow so powerful. Emily is such a special person. | |
| Metric – The Shade Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[xtina325:4398] Can't agree more, I can't wait. They are like wine, they get better with every album it seems. Such a unique and special band. | |
| Metric – The Fatal Gift Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[gio7190775:773] Yeah, you are right. I will fix it tomorrow. thnx |
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| Metric – The Fatal Gift Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Such a lovely song. The obvious interpretation is that the song is about Emily Haines is cursed with the gift of being a popular musician. Its her passion but she feel's like she doesn't get enough out of it for the work she puts in. She wonders why she continues again and again. "Haven't we made enough for a living wage We accept the Fatal Gift, A Soup Stone for our stove And a blindfold for our tears, pain for a livin wage Know its a deceptive deal, we accept the fatal gift they hover over where we live" and "Why do we stay, why do we stay, why do we stay..?" The song also has a second message about how you truly never own anything, all the work you put getting your "stuff" and it truly isn't yours. With all her money, she still questions if she actually "owns" anything, either in terms material items or maybe even her success. When she released this song to her email subscribers *just a few hours after this comment" Emily talks about how she constantly questions herself and undermines her success before releasing a new song. |
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| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Reading in Bed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Such a lovely song. Makes me cry. I miss the old emily, the new one is still awesome, just different. :( |
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| Metric – Strange Weather (Tom Waits cover) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love this song, especially sung by Emily, I think you could make parallels with modern society and the lyrics. The addictive, consumerist nature of our culture can is "the rose has died because you picked it, I believe that brandy's mine" We also seem to capitalise on fear and bigotry often within the news media "And the world is getting flatter and the sky is falling all around" |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I'm diagnosed with clinical depression and acute schizophrenia. This song makes me feel exactly the way I do in an episode of Severe depression and paranoia. Thom is talking about being trapped within his mind with destructive urges, he feels like he can easily lose control and the ideas become more than just a idea "climbing the walls" In the song he talks about how its better on the outside, I know that feeling. The masquerade of being sane, normal. When your mind isn't nothing close to normal. I don't think Thom is Schizo but he likely has a personality disorder. The song scares me. More so than any of his other work. | |
| Tom Waits – Strange Weather Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love the Emily Haines/Metric cover of this song. Coupled with her voice and the lyrics with their beautiful simplicity this song truly is fantastic. Interpretation: For me this song is about deteriorating culture. "And the world is getting flatter and the sky is falling all around" I take this as the rise of bigotry and sensationalism found in deteriorating cultures. |
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| Metric – Down Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Go to ilovemetric.com they sell them online :) | |
| Metric – Synthetica Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I agree that this song is about breaking free of a corporate music culture and being individual and pure (not synthetic) I also think that this is about a issue that has haunted Emilies lyrics for the larger part of metric, drug addiction. I think she suffers from an addiction and she has to deal with the urge to relapse, I think she views both our medicated culture and corporate music culture are synonymous. | |
| Metric – The Void Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I agree that this song is about breaking free of a corporate music culture and being individual and pure (not synthetic) I also think that this is about a issue that has haunted Emilies lyrics for the larger part of metric, drug addiction. I think she suffers from an addiction and she has to deal with the urge to relapse, I think she views both our medicated culture and corporate music culture are synonymous. | |
| Metric – The Void Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about touring, its pretty clear in "All night All night (sing along with the band, losing my voice) All night (? my choice) All night (sing along with the band it was steeling my voice" When a band is on tour so many nights in a row for weeks, it is tiring. I've toured with a few *as a band photographer* and it can be intolerable near the end. |
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| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this song is about understanding the unchangeable reality. When I was young I always looked at seemingly perfect people and their perfect lives when in reality in their own individual way they were just as broken and imperfect as me. I think the song reflects that. | |
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