We’ve already perved out over Metric’s lead singer Emily Haines on this website (introducing you to her band’s music in the process), but today we wanted to show you that she’s got gears beyond the pop sensibility of “Gimme Sympathy.”
Here’s Haines and her Canadian band mates performing “Help I’m Alive,” our personal favorite from the Metric catalog.
METRIC: “HELP I’M ALIVE”
I tremble
They’re going to eat me alive
If I stumble
They’re going to eat me alive
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?
Beating like a hammer?
Help, I’m alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help, I’m alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If you’re still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn’t I do?
I get wherever I’m going
I get whatever I need
While my blood’s still flowing
And my heart still beats . . .
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help, I’m alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be soft
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse, the pace is on a runaway train
Help, I’m alive, my heart keeps
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
If you’re still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn’t I do?
I get wherever I’m going
I get whatever I need
While my blood’s still flowing
And my heart still beats . . .
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Help, I’m alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
Previously …
Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”
Beck – “Loser”
Ben Folds Five – “Rockin’ The Suburbs”
Billy Ward & The Dominoes – “Sixty Minute Man”
The Black Crowes – “Wiser Time”
B.O.B. – “Nothing On You”
Coolio – “Fantastic Voyage”
Cypress Hill – “Rock Superstar”
The Cure – “Burn”
Eminem (ft. Rihanna) – “Love The Way You Lie”
Filter – “One (Cover)”
Foo Fighters – “Times Like These”
Foo Fighters – “My Hero”
The Fray – “The Great Beyond (Cover)”
James – “Born of Frustration (Live)”
Kesha- “Your Love Is My Drug”
Katie Melua - “Just Like Heaven (Cover)”
Killers – “Shadowplay (Cover)”
Lady Ga Ga/ Beyonce – “Telephone”
Led Zeppelin – “Your Time Is Gonna Come/ Black Mountain Side”
Led Zeppelin – “Misty Mountain Hop”
LL Cool J – “Mama Said Knock You Out”
Midnight Oil – “Dreamworld”
Monster Magnet – “Negasonic Teenage Warhead”
The National – “All The Wine”
Naughty By Nature – “O.P.P.”
Nine Inch Nails – “Piggy”
Nine Inch Nails – “Hand That Feeds”
Outkast – “Rosa Parks”
Owl City – “Hot Air Balloon”
The Outfield – “I Don’t Need Her”
Panic At The Disco! – “Karma Police” (Cover)
Pavement – “Range Life”
Pearl Jam – “Alive”
Queen – “Somebody To Love”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Geek, U.S.A.”
The Spin Doctors – “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”
Stevie Wonder – “I Believe (When I Fall In Love This Time It Will Last Forever)”
Sting – “Fortress Around Your Heart”
Tom Petty – “The Waiting”
Twilight Singers – “The Twilite Kid”
U2 – “Until The End Of The World”
U2 – “Where The Streets Have No Name”
The Waitresses – “I Know What Boys Like”
Weezer – “Put Me Back Together”
The Who – “Baba O’Riley”
Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”
