Say Anything – Metal Now

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I wanna rob you of your game face
So I can cower beneath your words
'Cause I'm a freak from the same place
Let suicide make a meal for birds

Into your heart, I've got the dagger
The metaphor will suffice for now
Get in my bed, I wanna kill you
Show you mine if you show me how

I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around

She slit her wrists
For attention in 1996
She slit her wrists
Listening to live through this

So here I am, will you deny me
Metal now but I've always been
Lets make a toast, let's do the oil spill
Let the seagulls pick out the sins

I want it now, I want the danger
Give me strength and I'll give you wings

I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around

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I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around

I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around

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Lyrics submitted by KK61034

Track duration: 02:45

"Metal Now" as written by Max Bemis, Kevin Sachs

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:Love the song, but these lyrics are ripe with typos.
    Flag Badgermoleon June 01, 2011   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:i feel insulted. AGAIN...
    he gets angry when im around?? fucker.
    use protection next time for your angry sex
    Flag fucknuton April 19, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I think this song is about a girl that he knew who was a stereotypical emo.
    'She slit her wrists for attention in 1996'
    She was a 'poser' emo, who did what she did for attention, rather than because she was tortured emotionally. Max notices this and challenges her to actually do something, like a suicide pact with him. He tells her that he can help her die if that is what she wants. Because she was just a 'poser' emo, she obviously refuses, hence
    'i get angry
    when you're around
    when you're around
    i get nasty
    when you're around
    when you're around'

    I don't know if that's right, but it makes a lot of sense to me.
    Might not be applicable for the time that max wrote it, but it sure as hell is applicable now.
    Flag Knave283on January 03, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This was always my favorite song off of this CD but I never understood until one day I listened to it after developing a relationship most perfectly described by the lyrics and I think I may have figured out the meaning.

    Its masochistic. I want him and yet he antagonizes me completely. He and I (mostly him though) are sadomasochistic. We love to get rough with each other. In fact the only reason we really got together was because he loved to irritate me just so I would hit him and I loved it all too.

    This song isn't about wanting to die, its about loving risk, pain and danger. Loving hating each other.
    Flag Lashindon October 29, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:what they mean by the expression "let suicide make a meal for birds" is that you can offten see crows and other birds eating away at dead corcuses. so by that they mean, after they commit suicide they're bodys are now food for the bird. If taht makes sense.
    Flag bitemarks_01on September 12, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:"get in my bed, i want to kill you" how much more obvious angry sex does it get?
    as for "metal now" i'm a little confused... aside from obvious things it could be a razor? just a guess.
    Flag ::giranimals::on July 15, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:-->let suicide make a meal for birds.
    Killing ones self somewhere no one would find

    --> into your heart, i've got the daggar.
    Juliet ends her own life by piercing her chest with Romeos dagger

    --> the metaphor will suffice for now.
    Indicating that the previous statement is a metaphor and that he isn't going to kill her but talk of a suicide pact may have come up

    Later in the song....

    --> lets make a toast, lets do the oil spill, let the seagulls pick out the sins.
    Saying that they should make the pact, Organic oils are produced through organic processes, I.E bodies just left there, the reference to seagulls picking out sins makes me think that these people are not religious so contrary to some faiths, suicide will not condemn them to hell.
    Flag DyingDegree1991on June 07, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Rielle's statement makes the most sence to me. Great job on that by the way!
    But I think that it's not that he doesn't like genre titles, it's that he hates the whole "You're not metal if you don't have long hair." kinda thing. I'm right there with him.
    Flag Gruberon December 15, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:suicide make a meal for birds - someone asked about this. i interpreted it as kind of a figure of speech. meal for birds, who are tiny little nothing creatures, meaning the issue of suicide is something birds can take in his world, but in our world it's this huge, horrible issue. just saying he's more bad ass lol and suicide in his world is pussy shit. i dont know. (can i curse on here?)
    Flag atleastitriedon November 02, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:hahhahahahahhahahahhaah oh max.
    Flag kteliz10on October 16, 2007   Link

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