Monster Hospital

"Monster Hospital" is a song by Canadian rock band Metric from their third album, Live It Out. It is the album's first single, followed by "Poster of a Girl".

The song makes reference to Bobby Fuller and the chorus tributes his hit song I Fought the Law replacing "Law" with "War". It also contains a reference to Daddy Warbucks from Annie. They performed the song at the MuchMusic Video Awards in 2006.

The song appears to refer to the political stance taken by the band in their earlier years, and anti-war imagery present in their first videos. Tremendous military action transpired worldwide as the band gained popularity, despite cogent anti-war messages from Metric and other emerging bands of the day; "the war won". The song seems be an honest means of accounting for this series of events.

[edit] Music Video

The video starts with Emily Haines walking into her living room and inserting Metric's Live It Out record into her record player. As soon as the song starts, the screen turns black and white and hands pull Emily through her carpet. During the first verse, the video interlopes with Emily singing on the floor in the living room and on a bed (presumably in the "Monster Hospital"). When the first chorus begins, we see Jimmy Shaw playing the guitar covered in blood, while Emily sings. Hands are reaching through the roof and walls, trying to grab her (a reference to the 1965 Roman Polanski film Repulsion). During the second verse, Emily is walking down a hallway, looking around in fear as she continues to sing. We go back to Jimmy Shaw during the second chorus. During the bridge and final chorus, blood begins to leak from a lightbulb, a power socket, a television set, and other appliances. When the song ends, the screen becomes coloured again, and Emily sighs in relief, apparently just dreaming.