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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In the intro, play a Cm just before the Dm.
Also, a D7 is a D with a C.
[Intro]
Eb Dm Gm Eb
Cm F Gm Eb
Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Eb Eb
[Verse 1]
Gm
Come on, angel
Dm
Come and save us
Bb Eb
Let me see sunrise
Gm
Give me something
Dm Bb Eb
For the one thing we immortalized
Gm
Gaze upon you
Dm Bb Eb
Turning into some desired doll
Gm Dm
I'll be there to come and shake you
Bb Eb
When your will dissolves
[Pre-Chorus]
F
My love
Cm
Come out of the woods
Gm
Come out of the woods
F
Now darling
Cm
We're out of the woods
Gm
We're out of the woods
[Chorus 1]
Eb D7
You're safe in my mind
Gm Eb
Some antiquated tune
Cm D7 Gm
In my heart some ancient song
Eb
A song too blue to even use
Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Eb Eb
[Verse 2]
Gm Dm
Come on inside, it's a long ride
Bb Eb
'80s limousine
Gm Dm
I'll be tongue-tied, you'll be cross-eyed
Bb Eb
On the grainy screen
Gm Dm
With a token appreciation
Bb Eb
Amateur cigar
Gm Dm
Steel-plated, silver-painted
Bb Eb
Novelty guitar
[Pre-Chorus 2]
F
For you, well
Cm Gm
Isn't it good and isn't it shit
F Cm
They lured us away from the beach
Gm Gm
And onto the cruise ship
[Chorus 2]
Eb D7 Gm
I lied, I lied
Eb
And never grew
Cm D7 Gm
To be made a lonely child
Eb
There's seven rules you need to know
Cm D7
In my mind
Gm Eb
Some antiquated tune
Cm D7 Gm
In my heart some ancient song
Eb
A song too blue to even use
D Gm Cm F
D Gm Cm F
D Gm
I remember the beat
Cm
And the sound of the bass
F
When you played all alone
D Gm
Every possible dream
Cm
In the head that you held
F
And the hands that you hold
D Gm
I remember the beat
Cm
And the sound of the bass
F
When you played all alone
D Gm
Every possible dream
Cm
In the head that you held
F
And the hands that you hold
[Outro]
D Gm Cm F till end
End on Cm
Also, a D7 is a D with a C.
[Intro]
Eb Dm Gm Eb
Cm F Gm Eb
Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Eb Eb
[Verse 1]
Gm
Come on, angel
Dm
Come and save us
Bb Eb
Let me see sunrise
Gm
Give me something
Dm Bb Eb
For the one thing we immortalized
Gm
Gaze upon you
Dm Bb Eb
Turning into some desired doll
Gm Dm
I'll be there to come and shake you
Bb Eb
When your will dissolves
[Pre-Chorus]
F
My love
Cm
Come out of the woods
Gm
Come out of the woods
F
Now darling
Cm
We're out of the woods
Gm
We're out of the woods
[Chorus 1]
Eb D7
You're safe in my mind
Gm Eb
Some antiquated tune
Cm D7 Gm
In my heart some ancient song
Eb
A song too blue to even use
Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Gm Eb Eb
[Verse 2]
Gm Dm
Come on inside, it's a long ride
Bb Eb
'80s limousine
Gm Dm
I'll be tongue-tied, you'll be cross-eyed
Bb Eb
On the grainy screen
Gm Dm
With a token appreciation
Bb Eb
Amateur cigar
Gm Dm
Steel-plated, silver-painted
Bb Eb
Novelty guitar
[Pre-Chorus 2]
F
For you, well
Cm Gm
Isn't it good and isn't it shit
F Cm
They lured us away from the beach
Gm Gm
And onto the cruise ship
[Chorus 2]
Eb D7 Gm
I lied, I lied
Eb
And never grew
Cm D7 Gm
To be made a lonely child
Eb
There's seven rules you need to know
Cm D7
In my mind
Gm Eb
Some antiquated tune
Cm D7 Gm
In my heart some ancient song
Eb
A song too blue to even use
D Gm Cm F
D Gm Cm F
D Gm
I remember the beat
Cm
And the sound of the bass
F
When you played all alone
D Gm
Every possible dream
Cm
In the head that you held
F
And the hands that you hold
D Gm
I remember the beat
Cm
And the sound of the bass
F
When you played all alone
D Gm
Every possible dream
Cm
In the head that you held
F
And the hands that you hold
[Outro]
D Gm Cm F till end
End on Cm
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Mgmt
Mi Amigo Invenci (...)
Mi Sobrino Memo
Mia