I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Change
Everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called
Fights, battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead
Best
You've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And you use this chance to be heard
Your time is now (your time is now)
Change
Everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called
Fights and battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead
Best
You've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And you use this chance to be heard
Your time is now (your time is now)
Don't
Let yourself down
Don't let yourself go
Your last chance has arrived
Best
You've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And you use this chance to be heard
Your time is now (your time is now)
Everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called
Fights, battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead
Best
You've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And you use this chance to be heard
Your time is now (your time is now)
Change
Everything you are
And everything you were
Your number has been called
Fights and battles have begun
Revenge will surely come
Your hard times are ahead
Best
You've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And you use this chance to be heard
Your time is now (your time is now)
Don't
Let yourself down
Don't let yourself go
Your last chance has arrived
Best
You've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And you use this chance to be heard
Your time is now (your time is now)
Lyrics submitted by Willowbear
Butterflies and Hurricanes Lyrics as written by Matthew James Bellamy
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Its like a head-on collision between burbling electronics, techno space rock operatics, a behemothic string colossus with a monstrous Rachmaninovian piano interlude.
To me it's the music of the future, it's asking questions about the universe, it's translating the language of chaos so humans can understand that this is our chance to change the world, that tiny insignificant events (like the repeated D at the beginning of the song) can flourish into the phenomenal hugeness of the beautiful piano solo and the song's massive conclusion.
It's all about casuation and change, it's apocalyptic and terrible, but at the same time it's giving us a chance. This is our time, our time is NOW.
"Your number has been called" It's like you've been chosen to fight in this epic and final battle, it's filmic and heroic, but maybe its suggesting a future society where we will all have numbers, and will have to struggle against each other to "be the best."
It forecasts a huge and climatic end to everything, but far from conveying gloominess it's fantastic and heart-attack inducing. I saw this live at Earls Court. At the end, we all fell over. -:-
"...but maybe its suggesting a future society where we will all have numbers, and will have to struggle against each other to 'be the best.'"<br /> <br /> I'm pretty sure that's right now in a US capitalist society at least (odds are in the UK too). We've got social security numbers. A number that is our identity on all official forms, basically.