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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GIMMIE SYMPATHY - ACOUSTIC
METRIC
FANTASIES
Tabulated by Jesse Longworth
STANDARD TUNING (EADGBE)
[Verse 1]
A
Get hot
E
Get too close to the flame
F#m
Wild open space
Bm
Talk like an open book
A
Sign me up
E
Got no time to take a picture
F#m
I'll remember someday
Bm
All the chances we took
[Pre-Chorus]
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
[Chorus 1]
F#m
I can feel it in my bones
D A
Gimme sympathy
F#m
After all this is gone
D A
Who would you rather be
C#m F#m
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
D A
Oh seriously
C#m D
You're gonna make mistakes you're young
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
A Bm
Come on baby play me something,
F#m
Like here comes the sun
F#m
[Verse 2]
A
Don't go
E
Stay with the all unknown
F#m
Stay away from the hooks
Bm
All the chances we took
[Pre-Chorus]
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
[Chorus 2]
F#m
I can feel it in my bones
D A
Gimme sympathy
F#m
After all this is gone
D A
Who would you rather be
C#m F#m
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
D A
Oh seriously
C#m D
You're gonna make mistakes you're young
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
D A
Gimme sympathy
F#m
After all this is gone
D A
Who would you rather be
C#m F#m
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
D A
Oh seriously
C#m D
You're gonna make mistakes you're young
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
A Bm
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D (HOLD)
Like here comes the sun
METRIC
FANTASIES
Tabulated by Jesse Longworth
STANDARD TUNING (EADGBE)
[Verse 1]
A
Get hot
E
Get too close to the flame
F#m
Wild open space
Bm
Talk like an open book
A
Sign me up
E
Got no time to take a picture
F#m
I'll remember someday
Bm
All the chances we took
[Pre-Chorus]
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
[Chorus 1]
F#m
I can feel it in my bones
D A
Gimme sympathy
F#m
After all this is gone
D A
Who would you rather be
C#m F#m
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
D A
Oh seriously
C#m D
You're gonna make mistakes you're young
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
A Bm
Come on baby play me something,
F#m
Like here comes the sun
F#m
[Verse 2]
A
Don't go
E
Stay with the all unknown
F#m
Stay away from the hooks
Bm
All the chances we took
[Pre-Chorus]
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
D E
We're so close to something better left unknown
[Chorus 2]
F#m
I can feel it in my bones
D A
Gimme sympathy
F#m
After all this is gone
D A
Who would you rather be
C#m F#m
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
D A
Oh seriously
C#m D
You're gonna make mistakes you're young
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
D A
Gimme sympathy
F#m
After all this is gone
D A
Who would you rather be
C#m F#m
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
D A
Oh seriously
C#m D
You're gonna make mistakes you're young
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
A Bm
Come on baby play me something,
D
Like here comes the sun
A E
Come on baby play me something,
D (HOLD)
Like here comes the sun
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