Help I’m Alive

Metric * Track #1 On Fantasies

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Album Fantasies

ALBUM

Metric

2009

Help I'm Alive by Metric

Release Date

Tue Dec 23 2008

Performed by

Metric

Produced by

James Shaw & Gavin Brown

Writed by

Emily Haines & James Shaw

About

Help I’m Alive is about being paralyzed by the expectations of others (like peers or audiences, but Haines’s own expectations of herself as well) and the anxiety those expectations bring on.

Frontwoman Emily Haines discussed this track with Drowned in Sound:

This song is the first of many that I w...

Help I’m Alive Lyrics

[Verse]
I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive

[Refrain]
Can you hear my heart beatin' like a hammer?
Beatin' like a hammer?

[Pre-Chorus]
Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beatin' 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

[Refrain]
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer

[Chorus]
If we'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

[Refrain]
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer

[Pre-Chorus]
Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beatin' 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

[Refrain]
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer

[Chorus]
If we'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

[Refrain]
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer (Beatin' like a hammer)
Beatin' like a hammer (Beatin' like a hammer)
Beatin' like a hammer (Beatin' like a hammer)

[Verse]
I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive

[Refrain]
Can you hear my heart beatin' like a hammer?
Beatin' like a hammer?
Beatin' like a hammer
Beatin' like a hammer

[Outro]
Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beatin' like a hammer

Help I’m Alive Q&A

Who wrote Help I’m Alive's ?

Help I’m Alive was written by Emily Haines & James Shaw.

Who produced Help I’m Alive's ?

Help I’m Alive was produced by James Shaw & Gavin Brown.

When did Metric release Help I’m Alive?

Metric released Help I’m Alive on Tue Dec 23 2008.

What has the media said about the song?

In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #146 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:

Of the dozens of heart-forward dance songs Metric has cranked out over the past two decades — see ‘Gimme Sympathy,’ ‘Stadium Love’ — few cut to the quick of Emily Haines' anxious yet opti...

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