Biography:
Metric is an indie rock/New Wave band formed in 1998 in Toronto, Canada. The band members are Emily Haines (vocals, synths, guitar, tambourine), James Shaw (guitar, synths, theremin, backing vocals), Josh Winstead (bass, synths, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums). The band name was inspired after a sound called "Metric" that was programmed by Shaw on his keyboard. They were based at various times at Toronto, Montreal, London, NYC and LA.
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Other songs:
- Black Sheep
- Blindness
- Breathing Underwater
- Calculation Theme
- Collect Call
- Combat Baby
- Doctor Blind
- Don't Think Twice It's Alright
- Gimme Sympathy
- Gold Guns Girls
- Help I'm Alive
- List
- Live It Out
- Lost Kitten
- Love Is A Place
- Raw Sugar
- Satellite Mind
- Synthetica
- The Shade
- Too Little Too Late
- Twilight Galaxy
- All Yours
- Anticipate
- Art Of Doubt
- Artificial Nocturne
- Blind Valentine
- Calculation
- Cascades
- Celebrate
- Clone
- Dark Saturday
- Dead Disco
- Dont Think Twice Its Alright
- Dreams So Real
- Dressed To Suppress
- Eclipse All Yours
- Empty
- Ending Start
- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
- For Kicks
- Fortunes
- Gimmie Sympathy
- Give Me Sympathy
- Glass Ceiling
- Grow Up And Blow Away
- Help Im Alive
- Hustle Rose
- Iou
- Lie Lie Lie
- Live It Out Acoustic
- London Halflife
- No Lights On The Horizon
- Now Or Never Now
- On A Slow Night
- On The Sly
- Other Side
- Risk
- Seven Rules
- Siamese Cities
- Sick Muse
- Soft Rock Star
- Speed The Collapse
- Strange Weather
- Sugar Mountain
- The Gates
- The Governess
- The Police And The Private
- The Twist
- The Wanderlust
- Too Bad So Sad
- Waves
- Wet Blanket
- White Gold
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Lie Lie Lie - Metric
Hope you like it and I'm open for any improvements!
Intro and every verse slide Em (timing in first stanza)
(12th fret,14,9,12,10 and 7,9,5,7,2)
Em slide 1x
(12, 14, 9, 12, 10)
If it happened it was meant to be
(7, 9, 5, 7, 2)
Offer me a free lobotomy
(12, 14, 9, 12, 10)
Got to be sedated to be seen
(7, 9, 5, 7, 2)
On the cover of your magazine
Em slide 1x
Hey, hey, hey...
Em
If it happened it was meant to be
Em
Got me a lobotomy for free
Em
Now, I'm so sedated and serene
Em
On the cover of your magazine
Em slide 1x
C Am Em
Oh, and I suppose I brought it all upon myself
C Am Em
Starting with the question no one wants to ask themselves
C Am Em
Naked in the movie, make me the director's pet
C Am Em
Everybody told me 'take whatever you can get'
C Am Em
Everybody told me 'take whatever you can get'
C Am Em
Lie, lie, l-lie, lie, lie, l-lie, lie 4x
Em
Holding off your freedom of speech
Em
Rage against the dying of the light
Em
Why you never say what you mean?
Em
Rage against the dying of the light
Em
Baby, you'll be safe with me
Em
Rage against the dying of the light
Em
Holding up a tattered dream
(7, 9, 5 -7- 5, 4, 3, 2,)
Rage against the dying, rage against the dying of the light
C Am Em
Oh, and I suppose I brought it all upon myself
C Am Em
Knowing all the questions no one wants to ask themselves
C Am Em
Naked in the movie, make her the director's pet
C Am Em
Your mother and your father wanna see you on the TV set
C Am Em
Everybody told her 'take whatever you can get'
C Am Em
Lie, lie, l-lie, lie, lie, l-lie, lie (8x)
fading (lie lie lie...)
Hope you like it and I'm open for any improvements!
Intro and every verse slide Em (timing in first stanza)
(12th fret,14,9,12,10 and 7,9,5,7,2)
Em slide 1x
(12, 14, 9, 12, 10)
If it happened it was meant to be
(7, 9, 5, 7, 2)
Offer me a free lobotomy
(12, 14, 9, 12, 10)
Got to be sedated to be seen
(7, 9, 5, 7, 2)
On the cover of your magazine
Em slide 1x
Hey, hey, hey...
Em
If it happened it was meant to be
Em
Got me a lobotomy for free
Em
Now, I'm so sedated and serene
Em
On the cover of your magazine
Em slide 1x
C Am Em
Oh, and I suppose I brought it all upon myself
C Am Em
Starting with the question no one wants to ask themselves
C Am Em
Naked in the movie, make me the director's pet
C Am Em
Everybody told me 'take whatever you can get'
C Am Em
Everybody told me 'take whatever you can get'
C Am Em
Lie, lie, l-lie, lie, lie, l-lie, lie 4x
Em
Holding off your freedom of speech
Em
Rage against the dying of the light
Em
Why you never say what you mean?
Em
Rage against the dying of the light
Em
Baby, you'll be safe with me
Em
Rage against the dying of the light
Em
Holding up a tattered dream
(7, 9, 5 -7- 5, 4, 3, 2,)
Rage against the dying, rage against the dying of the light
C Am Em
Oh, and I suppose I brought it all upon myself
C Am Em
Knowing all the questions no one wants to ask themselves
C Am Em
Naked in the movie, make her the director's pet
C Am Em
Your mother and your father wanna see you on the TV set
C Am Em
Everybody told her 'take whatever you can get'
C Am Em
Lie, lie, l-lie, lie, lie, l-lie, lie (8x)
fading (lie lie lie...)
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