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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Metric - The Twist
[Piano intro]
e|-6-5-3-0-6-5-1---3-1-0---------------------------------3-0-------|
B|---------------3-------2-------------5-------6---3---------3-6---|
G|-------------2-----------2-0-0---3-2-----3-2-------3-2-----------|
D|---------2-------0-------------3---------2-------3-----------0---|
A|-----3---------------0---4---5-------3-------5-------4---0-------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
D5
We were too wasted to close the window
D5 Gm
Friends and family looking in to my only hiding place
C D5
The rhythm of a strangers skin
[Pre-Chorus]
D5
Infidel to die for
Gm Cadd6
What i am doing will happen in the morning
C
When the mirror won't recognize me
[Chorus]
C C7 Dm
He holds a certain gesture when we're loving to ask each other
A A7 Dm
Do you want it? Do you want me?
C7 C C7 Dm A A7 Dm
I want it, it is you, you are where I want to be.
[Bridge]
A+m9
Who is he? (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride? (the)
Dm
I can drive. (twist)
A+m9
Who is she? (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride (the)
Dm
When I can drive. (twist)
[Verse 2]
D5
Somebody put me back in school, I forget everything
D5 Gm
I used to know know to leave the boy behind
C D5
Without having to watch him go
[Pre-Chorus]
D5
Infidel to die for
Gm Cadd6
What i am doing will happen in the morning
C
When the mirror won't recognize me
[Chorus]
C C7 Dm
He holds a certain gesture when we're loving to ask each other
A A7 Dm
Do you want it? Do you want me?
C7 C C7 Dm A A7 Dm
I want it, it is you, you are where I want to be.
[Bridge]
A+m9
Who is he? (Circumstantial) (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride? (the)
Dm
I can drive. (twist)
A+m9
Who is he? (Circumstantial) (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride? (the)
Dm
I can drive. (twist)
[Solo]
C C7 Dm Dm
A A7 Dm C7
C C7 Dm Dm
A A7 Dm Dm
[Outro, 2x]
A+m9
Circumstantial (oh)
Dm
Do the twist (do)
A
Circumstantial (the)
Dm
Do the twist (twist)
A+m9
Circumstantial (oh)
Dm
Do the twist (do)
A
Circumstantial (the)
Dm
Aah aah always (twist)
[Piano intro]
e|-6-5-3-0-6-5-1---3-1-0---------------------------------3-0-------|
B|---------------3-------2-------------5-------6---3---------3-6---|
G|-------------2-----------2-0-0---3-2-----3-2-------3-2-----------|
D|---------2-------0-------------3---------2-------3-----------0---|
A|-----3---------------0---4---5-------3-------5-------4---0-------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
D5
We were too wasted to close the window
D5 Gm
Friends and family looking in to my only hiding place
C D5
The rhythm of a strangers skin
[Pre-Chorus]
D5
Infidel to die for
Gm Cadd6
What i am doing will happen in the morning
C
When the mirror won't recognize me
[Chorus]
C C7 Dm
He holds a certain gesture when we're loving to ask each other
A A7 Dm
Do you want it? Do you want me?
C7 C C7 Dm A A7 Dm
I want it, it is you, you are where I want to be.
[Bridge]
A+m9
Who is he? (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride? (the)
Dm
I can drive. (twist)
A+m9
Who is she? (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride (the)
Dm
When I can drive. (twist)
[Verse 2]
D5
Somebody put me back in school, I forget everything
D5 Gm
I used to know know to leave the boy behind
C D5
Without having to watch him go
[Pre-Chorus]
D5
Infidel to die for
Gm Cadd6
What i am doing will happen in the morning
C
When the mirror won't recognize me
[Chorus]
C C7 Dm
He holds a certain gesture when we're loving to ask each other
A A7 Dm
Do you want it? Do you want me?
C7 C C7 Dm A A7 Dm
I want it, it is you, you are where I want to be.
[Bridge]
A+m9
Who is he? (Circumstantial) (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride? (the)
Dm
I can drive. (twist)
A+m9
Who is he? (Circumstantial) (oh)
Dm
Why would I (do)
A
Hitch a ride? (the)
Dm
I can drive. (twist)
[Solo]
C C7 Dm Dm
A A7 Dm C7
C C7 Dm Dm
A A7 Dm Dm
[Outro, 2x]
A+m9
Circumstantial (oh)
Dm
Do the twist (do)
A
Circumstantial (the)
Dm
Do the twist (twist)
A+m9
Circumstantial (oh)
Dm
Do the twist (do)
A
Circumstantial (the)
Dm
Aah aah always (twist)
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