Techno Ted may be a person who caused Chris incredible emotional pain & trepidation as well as moments of peace & happiness but now is removed and awaiting his fate. Darling may be a different person who is also free of him and can live her life free of Ted's tyranny. "In between all the laughing, and daydreams ... lies: a desert of truth" Lies are like a desert or the omission of Truth: Where there were Lies then Truth was absent. The song, "Techno Ted", may be a cathartic celebration of the downfall of this person.
I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If you're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If you're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If you're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If you're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
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Help I'm Alive Lyrics as written by James Shaw Emily Haines
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"I had all and then most of you"
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I think this song has to do with performing. She's not jaded enough yet to be okay with showbiz criticism, she's alive and emotional, and she's afraid that if she stumbles or messes up, they'll "eat her alive". and i guess you could make it apply to other things, other than performing
@morij2 I Think this song is about surviving in a capitalist world. Nothing is ever certain except for the established rules, and no one can ever be certain in their position. Everything is about capital and every life is expendable. Confidence and self-worth can be earned up to a point, but neither are never guaranteed.
Hah, this song always makes me thing she's being chased by zombies.
The first four lines is her running from zombies and heart beating like a hammer is them chasing after her cuz of her heartbeat.
Dude same! It makes me think she's being chased by zombies too. Great minds think alike?
No, you're just fucking stupid
Naaaah, it's totally about zombies. Because zombies are the shit.
The first time i heard this song was in the begining of the show vampire diaries haha so i have it stuck in my head its vampires.
Even though this song clearly states the Zombie scenario early, unfortunately it doesn't go into the outbreak nearly enough to be interesting. By the end all i know is her heart won't stop beating like a hammer and i am always wishing the Zombies got her 3 minutes earlier.
Totally. I also first imagined a zombie attack scenario. Of course, I knew it was metaphorical, but I still sometimes imagine it that way =P
@Figdbl I Think this song is about surviving in a capitalist world. Nothing is ever certain except for the established rules, and no one can ever be certain in their position. Everything is about capital and every life is expendable. Confidence and self-worth can be earned up to a point, but neither are never guaranteed.
This song, like many songs by Metric, by Emily Haines, is about fear. In fact, it's about the fear of fear. It could be drug induced (the lyrics share a close resemblance to typical panic attacks on drugs or hypochondriasis).
When people are afraid of fear, they tend to watch their pulse, a lot... Every increase is interpreted as a sign of a health condition. Because they know their fear is a bit hypochondric, they ask others to feel their pulse.
After a while the bravery comes in, which is the chorus. But because they keep thinking they get afraid again, and so on.
I Think this song is about surviving in a capitalist world. Nothing is ever certain except for the established rules, and no one can ever be certain in their position. Everything is about capital and every life is expendable. Confidence and self-worth can be earned up to a point, but neither are never guaranteed.
The zombie interpretation is obviously the best interpretation.
This song reminds me of the struggle of being with a controlling person, and then realizing you have a right to your own life and being alive. When you break out of one of these relationships it feels so amazing, but you know if you let that person in at all or slow down (or stumble) your break from them they will consume you and pull you right back to being a voiceless zombie (being eaten alive). I remember my anger towards him and trying to break it off without hurting him. It was "Hard to be soft, Tough to be tender" It the end my anger won out.
I remember waking up and listening to my ex-fiance and I was thinking " Hey I'm here! I have my own thoughts! There is someone in here" I felt so trapped and like I was in this prison, rattling the bars.
I remember the judgment I received from both him and family when I started to live my own life. Leaving him, I was a little reckless with my heart and health. None of it seemed to matter, because I was free and I was alive.
I remember my anger towards him and trying to break it off without hurting him. It was "Hard to be soft, Tough to be tender" It the end my anger won out.
I wish I had, had this song then. Because at the time I went from such a low caged feeling to such a high free feeling that it would have been nice to relate to someone.
Dudes. This is obviously a song about zombies.
This song is about Emily Haine's nerves about moving to a new place-where she wrote Fantasies-and even though it sounds like a song about a post apocalypse world with zombies, it's not. It's about how it feels to live in a new place with new people and new faces. Fantasies is wonderfully basic for Metric.
"Take my pulse the pace is on a runaway train" means her heart is pounding because she's afraid. That's literal.
"If you're still alive" If you haven't died because of my absence. "My regrets are few" then i don't regret doing this. "If my life is mine" If this truly is MY life, "What shouldn't I do?" Then why shouldn't i do what i want? "I get wherever I'm going" I get wherever i want to go on my own without anyone's help. "I get whatever I need" I get what i really need on my own. "While my blood's still flowing" while I'm still alive--moving hasn't killed me. "And My heart's still beating like a hammer" And my heart's still pounding because I'm nervous as hell.
I tremble They're gonna eat me alive If I stumble They're gonna eat me alive
-- If I mess up, the people in this strange, new place, are going to socially eat me alive. And i'll be nothing here.
No, its definitely about Zombies mate.
there becomes a point in life that you need to put everything on the line to see if you will be a success or a failure. This song is about that fear and drive that comes to you when you do this. It just isn't about moving but facing those fears of success or failure. Read My initial thought. You are right on. The musical changes also match the feelings you have when you are facing these challenges in life. Good evaluation.
i think this song could about preforming sober for the first time in a long time. i think the first verse is her saying how scared she is to preform sober. i think the title is referring to her really feeling and being "alive" without drugs.
and perhaps the lines.
"If my life is mine What shouldn't I do? I get wherever I'm going I get whatever I need While my blood's still flowing And my heart still beats.. "
are about drug use and how she's asking why does it matter if she does drugs because she's still living and breathing.
shrugs
I think this song is more about the experience of feeling alive when your exposed from your personal safety net, whatever that might be to you. <br /> <br /> There is a freedom of taking risks, if only for the moment, and your body responds to that of your heart, metaphorically and literally.
I def agree with this interpretation bc when I heard it that's what I thought, too. I mean she's asking if the person is still alive. Like she's checking their pulse and status.
Oh I'm mad for her gentle voice...
i think this song is about a panic attack, at least thats how i interpret it.. in the chorus the lines say how she can get wherever shes going and whatever she needs, but she still feels like her heart wont stop beating