(2018)
Title track del nuovo album dei Metric

Canzone sull'arte del dubbio e sul come il dubbio serva a salvarci dalle menzogne dei politici che spacciano la guerra come autodifesa.


Another big word that has recently become pretty important to you is the word “doubt”. I mean, you’ve dedicated an entire album to it: your new record “Art Of Doubt”. Is doubting a human property that is more positive or more negative?

More positive. I would say it’s the origin of science and the arts and poetry and everything we know—because we’ve questioned: What’s in the sky? What is the world made of? Doubt and questioning are the heart. That’s where all the good stuff happens.

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You know, views are shifting all around the world and politicians are exploiting fear. So, in fact, it’s the opposite of doubt. It’s that they’re like exploiting a sort of arrogance or a sense of entitlement in people as... (continuer)

Album: "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?" (2003)

Dall'album "Live It Out" del 2005.

Si tratta di un omaggio in chiave antimilitarista a Bobby Fuller, l'autore di "I Fought The Law", canzone resa poi celebre dai Clash. Fuller morì nel 1966 in circostanze mai del tutto chiarite, quasi certamente assassinato.

A proposito della versione dei Metric ("I fought the war but the war won"), si legga l'intervento di GinaMarz su Songmeanings: