Live It Out

Live it Out is Metric’s second album, released in 2005.

The album grapples with the paradoxes of modernity, and examines how people live under oppressive systems of capitalism (“Handshakes”), sexism (“Glass Ceiling”, “Patriarch on a Vespa”), militarism (“Monster Hospital”) and government surveillance (“The Police and the Private”). In this way, the title can be interpreted as a statement of survival: under crushing systems of power, one has to “live it out” until there’s opportunity for change.