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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verse 1
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we used to leave the blue lights on and there was a beat
B C#m A B C#m E
ever since you have been gone it s all caffeine-free faux punk fatigues
B C#m A
said it all before
B C#m E
they try to kick it their feet fall asleep
B C#m A
yet no harm done no
B C#m E
none of them want to fight me
chorus
E B C#m B E
combat baby come back baby
G#m C#m
fight off the lethargy
B E
don t go quietly
G#m C#m
combat baby
B E
said you would never give up easy
G#m C#m
combat baby come back
verse 2 (same chords as first)
get back in town I wanna paint it black
I wanna get around
easy living crowd so flat
said it all before
they try to kick it their feet fall asleep
I want to be wrong but
B C#m A E
No one here wants to fight me like you do
chorus
combat baby come back baby
fight off the lethargy
don t go quietly
combat baby
said you were never gonna give up easy
combat baby come back
bridge:
C#m A
I try to be so nice
Bb diminshed
Compromise
A
Who gets it good
C#m A
Every mighty mild seventies child
Bb diminished A
Every mighty mild seventies child
E
Beats me
E B C#m B E
Do do doo do do doo do do doo doo do doo x
(chords same as chorus)
Combat baby come back baby
Combat baby come back
Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye baby
Combat baby come back
B C#m A
how I miss your ranting
B C#m E
do you miss my all time lows
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Mgmt
Mi Amigo Invenci (...)
Mi Sobrino Memo
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