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Metric

Risk

Release date: 20th September 2018

From Art of Doubt
Track 8
5:25
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‘Risk’ by Metric is an alternative track from the album ‘Art of Doubt’, released in 2018. Its lyrics address a return to an earlier self, then the uneasy momentum of getting back into motion, as confidence hardens into a loss of faith and control. The song’s images lean on cycles of starting and slipping, ending with acceleration trailing into hollowness, encapsulated in the line, “Started to lose control”.

"Risk" is a single by Metric, from the album Art of Doubt, released 20th September 2018. The track is 5:25 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Metric.

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Metric

Metric

Lyrics

Risk

So you got away
Something brought you back
To the kid that you were
For a couple days
Everything you lacked
You possessed
It was yours
Started slow
Started late
Started strong
Then we lost faith
Started slow
Started to lose control
The more we accelerate
With your hollow eyes
You keep coming back
It begins to transform
Can you spend the night?
Can you be the raft
In the eye of the storm?
Started slow
Started late
Started strong
Then we lost faith
Started slow
Started to lose control
The more we accelerate
The more we accelerate
Can I send this kiss right to you now?
'Cause the risk belongs with you somehow
Can I return this kiss that you gave?
Already know it's borrowed anyway
Was the risk I sent to you received?
All the words we say to be believed?
I'm already over the thrill of pursuit
Where can I take the risk I took with you?
Send this kiss to someone new?
So you're beaten up
But you bounce back
It's all part of the pull
And the story runs
Like a soundtrack
We repeat 'til we're full
Started slow
Started late
Started strong
Then we lost faith
Started slow
Started to lose control
The more we accelerate
The more we accelerate
Can I send this kiss right to you now?
'Cause the risk belongs with you somehow
Can I return this kiss that you gave?
Already know it's borrowed anyway
Was the risk I sent to you received?
All the words we say to be believed?
I'm already over the thrill of pursuit
Where can I take the risk I took with you?
Send this kiss to someone new?
So there's no way to hide
Find some daylight
There's another way to leave the Garden of Eden
And I'm inclined to try
Find some daylight
Open my eyes
There's another way to leave the Garden of Eden
And I'm inclined to try

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Track details

From Art of Doubt

5:252018Single
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Art of Doubt
Art of Doubt
Metric
21st September 2018
Track number
8
Release year
2018
  1. 1Dark Saturday
    3:50
  2. 2Love You Back
    4:07
  3. 3Die Happy
    4:06
  4. 4Now or Never Now
    6:20

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