Old world underground where are you now?
Subtract my age from the mileage
on my speeding heart, credit cards
accelerate, accumulate
looked for you downtown
wound up in a movie with no story
now it’s late and you are nowhere to be found
hesitation’s always mine
hesitate outside the times
with all I don’t say
with all I don’t do
I’m sending you
Invitations to hesitate too
Every ten year-old enemy soldier
Thinks falling bombs are shooting stars sometimes
But she doesn’t make wishes on them
When she wishes, she wishes for less ways to wish for
More ways to work toward it
Ten year-old enemy soldier
Our falling bombs are her shooting stars
hesitation’s always mine
hesitate outside the times
oh call me or drop me a line
say you’ve been with me
say you’ve been with me
say you’ve been with me
this whole time
old world underground I never knew you
But I’ve seen your face everywhere
there was a farm before we tore
the small town down
multiply divide
Subtract my age from the mileage
on my speeding heart, credit cards
accelerate, accumulate
looked for you downtown
wound up in a movie with no story
now it’s late and you are nowhere to be found
hesitate outside the times
with all I don’t say
with all I don’t do
I’m sending you
Invitations to hesitate too
Thinks falling bombs are shooting stars sometimes
But she doesn’t make wishes on them
When she wishes, she wishes for less ways to wish for
More ways to work toward it
Ten year-old enemy soldier
Our falling bombs are her shooting stars
hesitate outside the times
oh call me or drop me a line
say you’ve been with me
say you’ve been with me
say you’ve been with me
this whole time
But I’ve seen your face everywhere
there was a farm before we tore
the small town down
multiply divide
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Wow, I can't believe that no one has commented on this!
It's one of my favorite Metric songs. It's just gorgeous. The melody, the lyrics, everything. I especially love the last part of the song, where it's just like the beginning, but then it stops and just the guitar is going. And then you get the drum beat, and she starts going, "Old world underground I never knew you..."
The lyrics are pretty self explanitory, I think. It's kind of a comment on today's culture. Movie with no story, credit cards, war, multiply divide. How we used to have it good, but we've ruined it.
"there was a farm before we tore the small town down"
And if you want to go a bit deeper, the "multiply, divide" part could be comparing humains/humain society to cells, they just multiply and divide, simple as that.
no one mentioned the simple yearning of the old underground music scene. i got hooked on this woman's words right when i yearned to know the stories everyone has about music and noise played up on a stage you need to surf to reach. bah.
her tone of voice carries the song.
the enemy soldier idea is something i have to live by. you have to hold on and try. because she stays quiet and hopes you read her to stay quiet beside her. i don't know. it's late at night.
This is one of my favorite metric songs, I used the part "Every ten year-old enemy soldier Thinks falling bombs are shooting stars sometimes But she doesn’t make wishes on them When she wishes, she wishes for less ways to wish for More ways to work toward it Ten year-old enemy soldier Our falling bombs are her shooting stars
hesitation’s always mine" as my intro to a radio show I had for a while.
when she wishes, she wishes for less ways to wish for. more ways to work toward it.
i love that line. it tells us to stop wishing and instead make it come true.
Subtract my age from the mileage on my speeding heart
speeding hearts.. sigh*
this song is awesome!! .. my fav lines posted by miserable.grief. totally awesome song i can never get tired of metric
passion is this song, set in the unemotional, surreal landscape that is real life
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wow everyhing about this song is great. Emily Haines is amazing, and not to mention reeeeeaaaly hot haha.
i realized today this song also refers to cocaine use in the line
"subtract my age from the mileage on my speeding heart, credit cards."
note credit cards. those credit cards..