Metric – Sick Muse Lyrics

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Watch out Cupid
stuck me with a sickness
pull your little arrows out
and let me live my life

You better watch out Cupid
stuck me with a sickness
pull your little arrows out
let me live my life
the one I better lead
all the blondes of fantasies

And we looked at them
eleven ways
You said "look at me"
I looked away
You wrote the song
I wanna play
I'll write you harmony in C

Everybody
Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody
Everybody just wanna play the lead
Everybody
Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody
Everybody just wanna play the lead
play the lead
play the lead

Watch out Cupid
money is a sick muse
pull your little arrows out
and let me live my life

She said I'm with stupid
money is a sick muse
pull your little arrows out
let me live my life
the one I better lead
all the blondes of fantasies

And we looked at them
eleven ways
You said "look at me"
I looked away
You wrote the song
I wanna play
I'll write you harmony in C

Everybody
Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody
Everybody just wanna play the lead
Everybody
Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody
Everybody just wanna play the lead
play the lead
play the lead

I'll write you harmony in C

Everybody
Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody
Everybody just wanna play the lead
Everybody
Everybody just wanna fall in love
Everybody
Everybody just wanna play the lead
play the lead
play the lead

Comments (15)

Anonymous 2009-07-03 12:19:00

Seems to me its about how money isnt the best thing to use as your muse.... To use something inspiring rather than just having cash as your only motivation to do something.
Anonymous 2009-07-09 15:05:00

It's about love being superficial, I think. Y'know, real love VS, for lack of a better word, golddigging.
Anonymous 2009-07-10 18:56:00

I think it's about how both love and money are poor inspirations because of the way culture has promoted them as the be all end all. However, the "song we want to sing" is penned by someone else. It's a catch 22 - we want independence, freedom to follow our own muse, but what really inspires us is other people.
Anonymous 2009-07-20 05:55:00

Could it be about the female singer who released an album called "Im with Stupid"?
Anonymous 2009-07-31 00:47:00

I think it's about how money and love are both incorrectly defined in our world and simultaneously she's having those desires and doesn't want to give in because she knows they're fake.
Anonymous 2009-09-19 15:10:00

I agree with the seventh comment from the top or second from the bottom as I'm seeing it now. The one that says this: Seems to me it's about how money isn't the best thing to use as your muse.... to use something inspiring rather than just having cash as your only motivation to do something. That's exactly how I interpreted it before I went on here, and how I will continue to interpret it.
Anonymous 2009-09-19 15:16:00

Me again. In response to this: Could it be about the female singer who released an album called "I'm with Stupid"?I'll say that a quick visit to Aimee Mann's Wiki page (never the best source but it wasn't a fact I was looking for) displayed that most fans took that album as a display of how Mann was unhappy with her record label. Many argue that "Fantasies" is too commercial for Metric's style. Perhaps Haines felt the same way when she made it, and felt a little guilty about this. The fact that Sick Muse is the second title on the track (second only to Help, I'm Alive which I'm guessing the band felt was best to put first and release as the first single as it was so commercial) supports this theory.
Anonymous 2009-10-09 02:36:00

I think SICK MUSE is about a collaboration of love. Emily Haines wrote tons of stuff for FANTASIES while she was in Rio, Brazil. Could it be that she was attempting freedom from the whole hearted and non stop glamming of Toronto, New York and London? Could it be that she is in love and does not want to be? Or that someone was in love with her, and she was not in love with them? If Cupid is in her life, what does she mean?
Anonymous 2009-10-25 15:33:00

it's about a girl that falls in love with a boy and he's not interested, he's up to make a lot of money. when she's left him he's listening to this song and misses her that's why: She said, "I'm with stupid" Money is a sick muse Pull your little arrows out Let me live my life The one I'd better lead All the blondes are fantasies
Anonymous 2009-10-26 05:39:00

HAHAHA. why does it have to have meaning ? Bonos been writing UTTER nonsense for decades now and no one seems to notice. i like this song cus its light and it reminds me of this girl i started dating a week ago.
Anonymous 2009-11-26 01:51:00

Most of the recording executives and producers state that the lyrics of a hit song are primarily simply a byproduct of a well written beat or melody. I don't agree this is the case to the tune of their alleged 95 plus % since lyrics tend to really draw me to a tune. Having said that, this particular song is absolutely fantastic only because of the melody and the pace. Forgive me because I truly love the song but lyrics are irrelevant.
jimback 2009-11-26 02:03:00

The recording executives and producers tell us that 95% of hit songs are based on melody and not lyrics. I believe this only because you first have to be drawn to a song in order to hear the lyrics. If its terrible you'll never know what the lyrics are. Fair enough although in my opinion its more like 60 melody and 40 lyrics because I'm a big fan of well written lyrics. Having said this, I love the song Sick Muse to death but its only because of the melody. The lyrics are really forgetable. In fact this is one where I toyfully add my own lyrics (about my daughters fastpitch team) but love the song regardless.
Anonymous 2010-01-11 09:39:00

Your all wrong.the first part is about love cupid stuck me with a sickness,"watch out" a love almost obsessed person who does not want it anymore
Theknowing 2010-01-14 03:14:00

Watch out cupid stuck me with a sickness:love sick,pull your little arrows out and let me live my lfie:this person does not want to be love sick anymore,you better watch out :it's a warning,let me live my life the one I better lead:I want to live my own life,all the blonds are fantasies:the color of his lover's hair but they are just playing with him so that's why they are just fantasies.
Anonymous 2010-05-30 22:44:00

Sick Muse (adam freeland remix) if you guys are so about melody this is a good remix