Send us a blade
Tell the survivors
"Help is on the way"
I was a blindfold
Never complained
All the survivors
Singing in the rain
I was the one with
The world at my feet
Got us a battle
Leave it up to me
Find us a trapdoor
Find us a plane
Tell the survivors
"Help is on the way"
I was a blindfold
Who never complained
All the survivors
Singing in the rain
I was the one with
The world at my feet
Got us a battle
Leave it up to me
What it is and where it stops
Nobody knows
You gave me a life
I never chose
I wanna leave but the world
Won't let me go
Wanna leave but the world
Won't let me go
What it is and where it stops
Nobody knows
You gave me a life
I never chose
I wanna leave but the world
Won't let me go
Wanna leave but the world
Won't let me go
What it is and where it stops
Nobody knows
You gave me a life
I never chose
I wanna leave but the world
Won't let me go
Wanna leave but the world
Won't let me go
What it is and where it stops
Nobody knows
You gave me a life
I never chose
I was the one with
The world at my feet
Got us a battle
Leave it up to me
Leave it up to me
Leave it up to me
Metric is a Canadian indie rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Emily Haines (lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano), James Shaw (guitar, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals), Joshua Winstead (bass, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums, percussion). The band started in 1998 as a duo formed by Haines and Shaw with the name "Mainstream". After releasing an EP titled Mainstream EP, they changed the band's name to Metric.
The band's first studio album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, was released in 2003. Live It Out, released in 2005, was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the "Canadian Album of the Year" and for the 2006 Juno Awards for "Best Alternative Album". Their third studio album, Grow Up and Blow Away, was recorded in 2001; it was initially planned as their debut album, but was delayed for many years and finally released, with some changes, in 2007.
Metric's fourth album Fantasies was released in 2009. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for "Canadian Album of the Year", and won the "Alternative Album of the Year" at the 2010 Juno Awards. Metric also won the 2010 "Group of the Year". The fifth Metric studio album, Synthetica, was released in 2012. The band won two awards at 2013 Juno Awards: "Alternative Album of the Year" for Synthetica and "Producer of the Year" for Shaw. The art director/designer/photographer Justin Broadbent also won an award for "Recording Package of the Year" for Synthetica. Metric's sixth album, Pagans in Vegas, was released in 2015, and their seventh album, Art of Doubt, was released in 2018. Their eighth full-length record, Formentera, was released on July 8, 2022. Their ninth LP, Formentera II, was released on October 13, 2023 via their label MMI and Thirty Tigers.
In 2023, Metric ranked 41st on Rolling Stone's The 50 Greatest Canadian Artists of All Time.
very funny, I am sure the people in the death camps are having a good laugh now. You all can gang up on me all you want. It wont shut me up. Raising awareness about the planet's evils is the whole point of comment boards. I stick to music but stuff like this cannot just go without rebuttal all the time. No one attacks the lefties like they attack me. We have never heard the lefties criticize socialist regimes, and we have heard plenty of praise by them for dictators. Cry all you want, and thanks for bumping my post.
RDO - i try to steer clear of your bombast... this is a music message board. You're unlikely to influence anyone' politics by unloading on the users of this board...
However, this statement:
"We have never heard the lefties criticize socialist regimes, and we have heard plenty of praise by them for dictators"
... is just about the dumbest thing I've heard you say in a while.
P.S. If I'm going to make up a word that doesn't exist, I might as well write it properly. I went for one p in lollipoPy. What do you think?
P.P.S. One of my favourite portmanteau words is Fictionary :-)
If any of you has a chance to see them: Go do it!
"What it is and where it stops, nobody knows / You gave me a life I never chose"
I like the contrast between the gritty guitar sound and the lollipopy, sweet synthetic sounds at different times in the song. Cool :-)
P.S. If I'm going to make up a word that doesn't exist, I might as well write it properly. I went for one p in lollipoPy. What do you think?
P.P.S. One of my favourite portmanteau words is Fictionary :-)
Clearly you are a wordsmith who enjoys stretching the legal boundaries of your poetic license.
I applaud this.
Try this one on for size:
Deceivious.
"His deceivious nature made him both entertaining and impossible to trust."
Also, Loves me some Metric, in all their lollipoppy goodness. (I vote for 2 P's, if I get a vote...)
I like the contrast between the gritty guitar sound and the lollipopy, sweet synthetic sounds at different times in the song. Cool :-)
P.S. If I'm going to make up a word that doesn't exist, I might as well write it properly. I went for one p in lollipoPy. What do you think?
P.P.S. One of my favourite portmanteau words is Fictionary :-)
Should be lollipoppy. Lollipopy is when the pope is having a rest.
very funny, I am sure the people in the death camps are having a good laugh now. You all can gang up on me all you want. It wont shut me up. Raising awareness about the planet's evils is the whole point of comment boards. I stick to music but stuff like this cannot just go without rebuttal all the time. No one attacks the lefties like they attack me. We have never heard the lefties criticize socialist regimes, and we have heard plenty of praise by them for dictators. Cry all you want, and thanks for bumping my post.
Many dictatorships in the world are from right political side. Shut up if you can't understand that and stay informed
Well, THAT'D confuse people rightly, wouldn't it? (I love it.)
Ha! Not in Canada, though... We use Metric and SAE interchangeably, at least lots of folks do. When I talk to people in Europe, they can't believe we use metric for a whole bunch of stuff, but our entire building trade is based in feet and inches. I tend to use Celcius temperature measurement in the winter, and switch to Farhenheit during the summer. We use Imperial measures for smaller length measurements (darts, horseshoes, sexual organs), and Metric for longer things, although lots of folks use miles, or a combination, depending on the circumstances.
But then it turns into something totally different.
P.P.S. One of my favourite portmanteau words is Fictionary :-)
I'm not sure if it's OSX or Chrome, but one of these programs is suggesting lollipoppy for the correct spelling for lollipopy...
Google returns about 280,000 results for lollipoppy vs about 141,000 results for lollipopy.
Based on that, I think you got it slightly wrongish. Sorry, but you did ask.
I love them.
In the socialist utopia of North Korea you will get sent to the death camps for being caught even listening to a radio music broadcast from Seoul. What do you socialists have against freedom of expression anyway? Trotsky was quite candid about this. His thoughts were the people were childlike masses to be taught by supermen like him and Stalin. What do you guys have against democracy anyway?
RDO, you seriously need a humor transplant (implant?)....