Metric – Help, I'm Alive

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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? [x2]
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 [x4]

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 [x2]

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 [x4]

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 [x4]

I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive

Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?
Beating like a hammer? [x3]

Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer . . .

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    General Comment:Maybe it's like Marccua's suggestion, fear of fear. But I think it's mainly about fear of going on and/or running to evil possessions/problems. But other thoughts about this song is about taking drugs or "making love" and regretting it, because it's effecting your life and other people's thoughts about you.

    What this song reminds me of the troubles I have with a certain boy, like right now. v.v I am very uncertain about my effects on what this said boy and others will do.

    I'm listening to it right now, been a few years since I have last listened to it. I really like this song.
    Flag DJAngelon December 01, 2012   Link
  • +3
    Song Meaning:This song, like many songs by Metric, by Emily Haines, is about fear. In fact, it's about the fear of fear. It could be drug induced (the lyrics share a close resemblance to typical panic attacks on drugs or hypochondriasis).

    When people are afraid of fear, they tend to watch their pulse, a lot... Every increase is interpreted as a sign of a health condition. Because they know their fear is a bit hypochondric, they ask others to feel their pulse.

    After a while the bravery comes in, which is the chorus. But because they keep thinking they get afraid again, and so on.
    Flag Maccuraon July 04, 2012   Link
  • +2
    Song Meaning:Dudes. This is obviously a song about zombies.
    Flag montmorencyon June 02, 2012   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I kinda get the impression that the song is about not wanting to be left open and vulnerable to others, or being scared to. With the "Hard to be Soft" and "Tough to be Tender"
    Flag lisimoomooon September 19, 2011   Link
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    Flagged davesteve12on May 02, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:And she trembles because they (reviewers, audiences) are observing, she is afraid of stumbling (musically). The "eat me alive" is the criticism. It is most definitively not about zombies, even if Emily joked about that herself.
    Flag elsonidoon March 08, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:This song is, as I've heard Emily Haynes explain before, about being able to keep writing and rocking. She needs to feel alive to keep going and defining herself. She won't let the music die. She's young, she's alive, she's got plans, and she can still rock. Thus the allusion to a fundamental tool of musical instruments (and hearing!): the hammer.
    Flag elsonidoon March 08, 2011   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:i always picture vampires when listening to this song.
    The fact that they are going to eat her alive.
    Her heart beating like a hammer because the vampires are checking the blood flow ;D
    The hard to be soft tough to be tender, biting her skin like describing a steak.
    And at the end she doesn't say 'Help, I'm alive', she asks if your still alive. But her hearts still beating and the bloods still flowing as i could imagine that of a vampire to still have a blood flow.

    I know a pretty odd idea to have for this song, but i think the idea would make a great music video for it (:
    Flag IKLevi18on February 23, 2011   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation:the zombie thing is actually very common, but ive heard that that verse or whatever is about heroin addiction
    Flag evslargon December 19, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I think it means that she just can't get away from whoever she's being persued by or she's being chased by zombies or other mythical creatures. Either way, it's AMAZING!!!! LOL! Love her voice and the beat and melody in this song!!! MAin song for the Vampire Diaries too?! Just makes it a hell of a lot better!!! :D
    Flag DamonSalvatoreLover91on October 17, 2010   Link

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