Playlist Metric

metric - black sheep

Hello again, friend of a friend, I knew you when
Our common goal was waiting for the world to end
Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend
You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again

I'll send you my love on a wire
Lift you up, everytime, everyone, ooo, pulls away, ooo
From you

Got balls of steel, got an automobile for a minimum wage
Got real estate, I'm buying it all up in outerspace
Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend
You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again

I'll send you my love on a wire
Lift you up, everytime, everyone, ooo, pulls a way, ooo
It's a mechanical bull, the number one
You'll take a ride from anyone, everyone wants a ride, pulls away, oooh from you

metric - patriarch on a vespa

Promiscuous makes an entrance
Her mouth is full of questions
Are we all brides to be
Are we all designed to be confined
Buy ourselves chastity belts and lock them
Organize our lives and lose the key
Our faces all resemble dying roses
From trying to fix it
When instead we should break it
We've got to break it before it breaks us

Fear of pretty houses and their porches
Fear of biological wrist watches
Fear of comparison shopping
Dogs on leashes behind fences barking
Pretty little pillows on floral couches
Until our faces all resemble dying roses
Stop trying to fix it

Patriarch on a Vespa
Runs a red and ends up
Crushed under the wheel

metric - down

I wondered if you could come and help me,
I want to get from here,
To there.

I wondered if you could come and help me,
I want to get from here,
To there.

I saw your face look
Down to mine,
I only hope that you're alright.
I know you think it's always think you who
Needs some time alone,
Needs some time alone,

To feel *I wondered if you could come and help me* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

To feel *I wondered if you could come and help me* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

After tonight another day,
A chance to feel a different way,
The sun is slowly changin' size still,
Sorrow in your eyes,
Sorrow in your eyes.

So feel *I wondered if you could come and help me* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

So feel *I wondered if you could come and help me* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

Heavy hearts swing low,
Feel down let go.

So feel *Feel down let go* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

So feel *Feel down let go* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

Feel *Feel down let go* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

So feel *Feel down let go* down.
*I want to get from here
To there.*

I wondered if you could come and help me

metric - calculation theme

I?m sick, you?re tired, let?s dance
Break to love make lust I know it isn?t
I?m sick, you?re tired, let?s dance
Cold as numbers but let?s dance

As though it were easy for you to lead me
I could be passive gracefully

Half the horizon?s gone for a skyline of numbers
Half the horizon?s gone we?re working the numbers
?till I?m sick

Sleep don?t pacify us until
Daybreak sky lights up the grid we live in
Dizzy when we talk so fast
Fields of numbers streaming past

I wish we were farmers, I wish we knew how
To grow sweet potatoes and milk cows
I wish we were lovers, but it's for the best

Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost,
Where is the love?
Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost,
Who here is in line for a raise?
Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost,
Where is the love?
Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost,
Who put these bodies between us?

metric - the people

Not looking for reasons, not trying to understand
Not trying to catch your eye, not trying to touch your hand
Not trying to show you a part of me no one else can find
But i will bring a song to you, who will buy my time?

The people get philosophical and say there is no future
I am trying to tear myself away from your eyes
The people get philosophical and say there is no future
Nothing is as blinding as your eyes

Not watching the seasons, watching days flow by
No quenchless autumn breezes, late tomorrow skies
Are you frightened by the moment? i softly lie
Where i thought i would always be, i let myself get by

The people
Get by

Not looking for an ending to make the pieces fit
Need is always pending on how much you can get

Get by you now
Get on you now

metric - too little too late

You can burn your paper fingers in the ashtray
Place your swollen lips on mine
You can shave your heavy head in my carpeted hallway
Sure for the first time you're wearing the right clothes

Now take them off
Meet me on the band room rug
Tie my right hand to the ride

You can take a live wire into the bath with you
For a feeling you can't find
You can entertain your childhood friends with a tour of the bedroom
Laugh to erase the dirt on your mind

Oh let's move out
Meet me at the motel
Tie my right hand to the bible

Too little too late but we can't say no
It's too much to feel
Tie my right hand to the bible

metric - eclipse all yours

All the lives always tempted to trade
Will they hate me for all the choices I've made?

Will they stop when they see me again?
I can't stop now I know who I am

Now I'm all yours, I'm not afraid
and you're all mine
Say what they may
And all your love I'll take to a grave
And all my life starts now

Tear me down they can
Take you out of my thoughts
Under every scar
There's a battle I've lost

Will they stop when they see us again?
I can't stop now I know who I am

Now I'm all yours, I'm not afraid
I'm yours always
Say what they may
And all your love I'll take to a grave
And all my life starts

I'm all yours, I'm not afraid
I'm yours always
Say what they may
And all your love I'll take to a grave
And all my life starts
Starts now

metric - help i m alive

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

If we'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 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

If we'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 still beating like a hammer

Beating like a hammer [3x]

Help, I'm alive
my heart keeps beating like a hammer

metric - the fatal gift

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

Paying for a living wage
Know it's a deceptive deal
We accept the fatal gift
They hover over where we live
Ooh they give it to me
Ooh they give it to me

The things you own
They own you
All the things you own
They own you ooh
They give it to me
Ooh they give it to me

The things you own
They own you
All the things you own
They own you ooh
Ooh
Haven't we saved
Enough to go away
Enough to reach the coast

Why do we stay
Paying for a living wage
I know it's a deceptive deal
We accept the fatal gift
They hover over where we live
Ooh they give it to me
Ooh they give it to me

The things you own
They own you
All the things you own
They own you ooh
Why do we stay

metric - the shade

I'm following the sun
That's setting in the West
We're floating on a bed of fading lights

A canopy of trees
Bears witness to the breeze
I'm falling like a feather, soft and light

Baby, there's no better time
No better time, baby, we can't find
Oh-whoa-whoa, oh-whoa-whoa

With eternal love, the stars above
All there is and ever was
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all
A blade of grass, a grain of sand
The moonlit sea, to hold your hand
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all

The embers of a fire still burning as they die
Stay bright to keep us side by side

Baby, there's no better time
No better time, baby, we can't find
Oh-whoa-whoa, oh-whoa-whoa

With eternal love, the stars above
All there is and ever was
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all
A blade of grass, a grain of sand
The moonlit sea, to hold your hand
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all [x2]

We got the sunshine
We got the shade
We got temptation
We got it made
We got rewarded
We got refused
We got distorted
We got confused
We got the sunshine
We got the shade
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all

With eternal love, the stars above
All there is and ever was
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all
A blade of grass, a grain of sand
The moonlit sea, to hold your hand
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all [x2]

metric - too bad so sad

[Verse 1]
Take me out of this state I'm in
Go somewhere I've never been
Got something trapped inside
Still alive, where's that paradise?

I thought by now I'd find
Rough justice is a long lifeline
Back and forth between the desert and the sea
Who I was and I will always be

[Chorus]
Oh yeah, woo-hoo
Too bad, woo-hoo
So sad, woo-hoo

[Verse 2]
Get me out of this state I'm in
When I spiral down, it's a vile spin
Got something I can't hide
Still alive, it's an overwhelming drive

To prevail and get out of this jail
Dust in my eyes and a tear in my sail
Back and forth between the desert and the sea
Who I was and I will always be

[Chorus]
Oh yeah, woo-hoo
Too bad, woo-hoo
So sad, woo-hoo

[Verse 3]
Take me out cause I'm all alone
Hair undone, despair unknown
Got something trapped inside
Still alive, it's a momentary ride

I've been on a thousand years too long
A thousand years too late for everything that's wrong
Back and forth between the desert and the sea
Who I was and I will always be

[Chorus]
Oh yeah, woo-hoo
Too bad, woo-hoo
So sad, woo-hoo

[Outro]
Oh yeah, woo-hoo
Oh yeah, woo-hoo
Oh yeah, woo-hoo

metric - the list

All dressed down to catch a whiff of the buzz
Smells like the death of the last great cause
But you & I we?ve been through that and that is not our fate
Give my face to the back of your head
Loyal in your shadow
Yeah yeah yeah
Broken accidental stars

Do lawyers have lawyers?
Do landlords have landlords? we?re wondering
One more cheap suit in the loop, more chlorine in the pool
The blonde dolls smiling behind us
Say, one day you?ll be just like us

All dressed up to catch a glimpse of the list
We?ve seen some success, it looks like a camero
Broken accidental stars

Do lawyers have lawyers?
Do landlords have landlords? we?re wondering
One more cheap suit in the loop, more chlorine in the pool
The blonde dolls smiling behind us
Say, one day you?ll be just like us

Calling from the next hotel ? can you put me on the list?
Who we are now we will always be- the best haircuts are taken

Calling from the next hotel ? can you put me on the list?
Who we are now we will always be- the best haircuts are taken

Calling from the next hotel ? can you put me on the list?
Who we are now we will always be

metric - wet blanket

Falling for the creep,
The body leech,
Here he comes
Vicious, hypnosis,
Clenched fist sayin'
"It?s wrong to want more than a folk song"
Underneath the shaker knit,
He?s a brick wall
She keep fallin' for the trick,
Vegetariate, sing-along,
Give a little kick,
With your fine thigh high.

*Doo-doo-doo, We?re on to you.*
Tearin' her down,
Talkin' her down,
Under your breath,
Makin' a mess,
See she is happy
You wanna break it

*Doo-doo-doo, We?re on to you.*
Tearin' her down,
Talkin' her down,
Under your breath,
Makin' a mess,
See she is happy
You wanna break it

*Doo-doo-doo, We?re on to you.*
Your phony roots,
Borrowed guitar,
Tellin' her what to think we are
You the number one,
Wet blanket,
Hardly a day goes by you don?t try to break down,
No, I don?t buy it,
You?re still around I wonder why,
She just keep

Falling for the creep,
The body leech,
Here he comes
Vicious, hypnosis,
Clenched fist sayin'
"It?s wrong to want more than a folk song"
Underneath the shaker knit,
He?s a brick wall
She keep fallin' for the creep,
The body leech,
Comin' on
Vicious hypnosis,
Clenched fist sayin'
"It?s wrong to want more than a folk song"
"I?m wrong to want more than a folk song"
"I?m wrong to want more than a folk song"
Underneath the shaker knit,
He?s a brick wall,
She keep fallin' for the trick,
Vegetariate sing-along,
Give a little kick,
With your fine thigh high,

*Doo-doo-do-do-do*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-do-do-do* *Ba ba, ba ba ba ba*
*Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

*Doo-doo-doo, We?re on to you*
Tearin' her down,
Talkin' her down,
Under your breath,
Makin' a mess,
See she is happy you wanna break it

*Doo-doo-doo* we?re on to you
Your bathing suit,
Borrowed guitar,
Tellin' her what to think we are,
You the number one
Wet blanket,
You?re still around I wonder why,
You?re still around I wonder why,
You the number one wet blanket.

metric - ending start

All this that is more than a wish is a memory
All this that is ceases to be
All is revealed
The obvious door opens nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing left
Nothing left to chance

When you try to see, we'll watch you
When you try to leave, we'll keep you
When you should be dreaming, we'll wake you
But don't scream, we'll make you swallow your words

Gave them our explosions, our reactions, all that was ours
For graphs of passion and charts of stars
Fave them our reactions, our explosions all that we are
For graphs of passion and charts of stars

How ending starts
Ending starts with answers

metric - poster of a girl

Can't stand by myself
Hate to sleep alone
Surprises always help
So I take somebody home
To find out how I feel
Feel like just a baby
Portrait of a lady
Poster of a girl

Satisfy myself
Avoid beginners
Who long to shut my mouth
Till I take one of them home
'Cause I know how it feels
Filling in the blanks
Looking on the bright side
When there is no bright side
Coming in your pants
For the off chance
With a poster of a girl

Incapable de rester toute seule
Je deteste dormir sans une présence
Les surprises semblent alléger ma solitude
Alors je ramène quelqu'un dans mon lit
Afin de découvrir comment je me sens
Comme un bébé
Portrait d'une femme
Affiche d'une fille

Me satisfaire
Eviter les novices
Ceux qui cherchent à me faire taire
Jusqu'à ce que je rentre avec l'un d'eux
Car je connais la sensation
De chercher le fil d'or
Et de ne jamais le trouver
(Coming in your pants)
Qui ne pense qu'à coucher avec une
fille d'affiche

Je sais que tu n'aimes pas ta réalité
Tu sais que je n'aime pas ta réalité
Tu sais que je n'aime pas ma réalité
Personne ne sait ce que c'est

On ne peut pas fabriquer la vérité

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